linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 08/49] thermal: core: improve power actor documentation

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Message-Id: <1478581767-7009-9-git-send-email-edubezval@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2016 21:08:46 -0800
From:   Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
To:     Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 08/49] thermal: core: improve power actor documentation

Simple improvement on clarity and removal of checkpatch warning
in the documentation of power actor kernel doc.

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
---
 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index f3d9fe9..3d2adfa 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1206,12 +1206,13 @@ int power_actor_get_min_power(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
 }
 
 /**
- * power_actor_set_power() - limit the maximum power that a cooling device can consume
+ * power_actor_set_power() - limit the maximum power a cooling device consumes
  * @cdev:	pointer to &thermal_cooling_device
  * @instance:	thermal instance to update
  * @power:	the power in milliwatts
  *
- * Set the cooling device to consume at most @power milliwatts.
+ * Set the cooling device to consume at most @power milliwatts. The limit is
+ * expected to be a cap at the maximum power consumption.
  *
  * Return: 0 on success, -EINVAL if the cooling device does not
  * implement the power actor API or -E* for other failures.
-- 
2.1.4