linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: backlight: Fix doc for backlight_device_get_by

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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:26:04 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee@...nel.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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: backlight: Fix doc for
 backlight_device_get_by_name

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:19:01AM +0400, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.