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spi: document odd controller reference handling 

Document the fact that a reference to the controller is dropped as part
of deregistration.

This is an odd pattern as the reference is typically taken in
__spi_alloc_controller() rather than spi_register_controller(). Most
controller drivers gets it right these days and notably the
device-managed interface relies on this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Johan Hovold 2017-10-30 11:35:26 +01:00 committed by Mark Brown
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@ -2195,7 +2195,7 @@ static void devm_spi_unregister(struct device *dev, void *res)
* Context: can sleep
*
* Register a SPI device as with spi_register_controller() which will
* automatically be unregister
* automatically be unregistered and freed.
*
* Return: zero on success, else a negative error code.
*/
@ -2236,6 +2236,8 @@ static int __unregister(struct device *dev, void *null)
* only ones directly touching chip registers.
*
* This must be called from context that can sleep.
*
* Note that this function also drops a reference to the controller.
*/
void spi_unregister_controller(struct spi_controller *ctlr)
{