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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index e61ad4e78c1..be6b5bc0677 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -559,20 +559,20 @@ static void device_create_release(struct device *dev) /** * device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs - * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to. - * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any. - * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added. - * @fmt: string for the class device's name + * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to + * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any + * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added + * @fmt: string for the device's name + * + * This function can be used by char device classes. A struct device + * will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class. * - * This function can be used by char device classes. A struct - * device will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified - * class. * A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if * the dev_t is not 0,0. - * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly - * created struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs. The - * pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call. Any - * further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this + * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created + * struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs. + * The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call. + * Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this * pointer. * * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously @@ -620,11 +620,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create); /** * device_destroy - removes a device that was created with device_create() - * @class: the pointer to the struct class that this device was registered * with. - * @devt: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered. + * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device was registered with + * @devt: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered * - * This call unregisters and cleans up a class device that was created with a - * call to class_device_create() + * This call unregisters and cleans up a device that was created with a + * call to device_create(). */ void device_destroy(struct class *class, dev_t devt) { |