2020-07-08 12:20:23

by Lukas Wunner

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Subject: [PATCH] driver core: Drop mention of obsolete bus rwsem from kernel-doc

15 years ago, commit 6eded061b126 ("Fix up bus code and remove use of
rwsem") removed the bus rwsem, but left over a reference to it in a
kernel-doc comment. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/dd.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 9353d811cce83..cc42c91c5bf56 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -430,10 +430,9 @@ static void driver_sysfs_remove(struct device *dev)
* Allow manual attachment of a driver to a device.
* Caller must have already set @dev->driver.
*
- * Note that this does not modify the bus reference count
- * nor take the bus's rwsem. Please verify those are accounted
- * for before calling this. (It is ok to call with no other effort
- * from a driver's probe() method.)
+ * Note that this does not modify the bus reference count.
+ * Please verify that is accounted for before calling this.
+ * (It is ok to call with no other effort from a driver's probe() method.)
*
* This function must be called with the device lock held.
*/
--
2.27.0