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Message-Id: <20221215071902.424005-1-linmq006@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:19:01 +0400
From:   Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
To:     Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linmq006@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] backlight: backlight: Fix doc for backlight_device_get_by_name

backlight_put() has been dropped, we should call put_device() to drop
the reference taken by backlight_device_get_by_name().

Fixes: 0f6a3256fd81 ("backlight: backlight: Drop backlight_put()")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index b788ff3d0f45..6eea72aa8dbf 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(backlight_device_get_by_type);
  *
  * This function looks up a backlight device by its name. It obtains a reference
  * on the backlight device and it is the caller's responsibility to drop the
- * reference by calling backlight_put().
+ * reference by calling put_device().
  *
  * Returns:
  * A pointer to the backlight device if found, otherwise NULL.
-- 
2.25.1

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