[PATCH] backlight: backlight: Fix doc for backlight_device_get_by_name

Miaoqian Lin linmq006 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 07:19:01 UTC 2022


backlight_put() has been dropped, we should call put_device() to drop
the reference taken by backlight_device_get_by_name().

Fixes: 0f6a3256fd81 ("backlight: backlight: Drop backlight_put()")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index b788ff3d0f45..6eea72aa8dbf 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(backlight_device_get_by_type);
  *
  * This function looks up a backlight device by its name. It obtains a reference
  * on the backlight device and it is the caller's responsibility to drop the
- * reference by calling backlight_put().
+ * reference by calling put_device().
  *
  * Returns:
  * A pointer to the backlight device if found, otherwise NULL.
-- 
2.25.1



More information about the dri-devel mailing list