linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/5] Docs: usb: update comment and code near decrement our usage count for the device

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Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 21:57:58 +0100
From:   Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>
To:     corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] Docs: usb: update comment and code near decrement our
 usage count for the device

Update comment: decrement our usage count ..
and code according to usb-skeleton.c

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>
---
V1 -> V2: Corrected format of function name to skel_release()
V2 -> V3: Moved correction of the function name to an own patch in this
          patch series
---
 Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
index 1fd7bf1dbdb0..c336dfd82426 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
@@ -254,8 +254,8 @@ talk to the device, the release function in the driver is called. In
 this function we decrement our private usage count and wait for possible
 pending writes::
 
-    /* decrement our usage count for the device */
-    --skel->open_count;
+    /* decrement the count on our device */
+    kref_put(&dev->kref, skel_delete);
 
 
 One of the more difficult problems that USB drivers must be able to
-- 
2.25.1