USB: core: of: document reference taken by companion helper

Document that the new companion-device lookup helper takes a reference
to the companion device which needs to be dropped after use.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/of.c b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
index d787f195a9a682c99e6289166d364d9aed110b2b..d563cbcf76cfbfb197aa1e45be1dc5f700102770 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/usb/core/of.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_of_get_child_node);
  *
  * Find the companion device from platform bus.
  *
+ * Takes a reference to the returned struct device which needs to be dropped
+ * after use.
+ *
  * Return: On success, a pointer to the companion device, %NULL on failure.
  */
 struct device *usb_of_get_companion_dev(struct device *dev)