linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:35:59 -0800
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()

The wording was a bit ambiguous. So update it to make it clear.

Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/fwnode.h | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fwnode.h b/include/linux/fwnode.h
index 766ff9bb5876..23df37f85398 100644
--- a/include/linux/fwnode.h
+++ b/include/linux/fwnode.h
@@ -94,15 +94,16 @@ struct fwnode_reference_args {
  *		available suppliers.
  *
  *		Return 0 if device links have been successfully created to all
- *		the suppliers this device needs to create device links to or if
- *		the supplier information is not known.
+ *		the known suppliers of this device or if the supplier
+ *		information is not known.
  *
- *		Return -ENODEV if and only if the suppliers needed for probing
- *		the device are not yet available to create device links to.
+ *		Return -ENODEV if the suppliers needed for probing this device
+ *		have not been registered yet (because device links can only be
+ *		created to devices registered with the driver core).
  *
- *		Return -EAGAIN if there are suppliers that need to be linked to
- *		that are not yet available but none of those suppliers are
- *		necessary for probing this device.
+ *		Return -EAGAIN if some of the suppliers of this device have not
+ *		been registered yet, but none of those suppliers are necessary
+ *		for probing the device.
  */
 struct fwnode_operations {
 	struct fwnode_handle *(*get)(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode);
-- 
2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog