linux-kernel - [PATCH] nvmem: fix nvmem_cell

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Message-Id: <1479852815-58780-1-git-send-email-briannorris@chromium.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:13:35 -0800
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] nvmem: fix nvmem_cell_read() return type doc

nvmem_cell_read() returns void *, not char *. This is a cleanup that got
left out of commit a6c50912508d ("nvmem: Declare nvmem_cell_read()
consistently").

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 965911d9b36a..398ea7f54826 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -981,8 +981,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
  * @cell: nvmem cell to be read.
  * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read.
  *
- * Return: ERR_PTR() on error or a valid pointer to a char * buffer on success.
- * The buffer should be freed by the consumer with a kfree().
+ * Return: ERR_PTR() on error or a valid pointer to a buffer on success. The
+ * buffer should be freed by the consumer with a kfree().
  */
 void *nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_cell *cell, size_t *len)
 {
-- 
2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020