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driver-core: document ERR_PTR() return values

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A number of functions in the driver core return ERR_PTR() values on
error. Document this in the kernel-doc of the functions.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Jani Nikula
2010-03-11 18:11:45 +02:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 178a5b35b2
commit f0eae0ed3b
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@@ -1345,6 +1345,8 @@ static void root_device_release(struct device *dev)
* 'module' symlink which points to the @owner directory
* in sysfs.
*
* Returns &struct device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error.
*
* Note: You probably want to use root_device_register().
*/
struct device *__root_device_register(const char *name, struct module *owner)
@@ -1432,6 +1434,8 @@ static void device_create_release(struct device *dev)
* Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
* pointer.
*
* Returns &struct device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error.
*
* Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
* been created with a call to class_create().
*/
@@ -1492,6 +1496,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);
* Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
* pointer.
*
* Returns &struct device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error.
*
* Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
* been created with a call to class_create().
*/