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

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Message-ID: <Y7W0k8bQMH7cRbo8@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2023 17:17:07 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
Cc:     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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: backlight: Fix doc for
 backlight_device_get_by_name

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, 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>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]