Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
authorNicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:44:29 +0000 (13:44 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:14:01 +0000 (10:14 -0700)
commit41c31f6a5945a4b005302e01d47c97bcf5d604ac
treecee9e50d15b9da286c2c8e6337e1393502efaa71
parentfdf0345e59f9c0fe02ceae580f04c4f22e10eb0d
Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting

There are a number of cases where conversions to devm_* API have been
done but developers forgot that this conversion may imply that return
values need to be checked for failure of internal resource handling
like allocation. While this should be clear, it does seem to be a
relatively common issue with API conversions or maybe "managed" is
being misunderstood ? So add a note to make the scope of "managed" clear.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt