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author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
commit | 0d4a42f6bd298e826620585e766a154ab460617a (patch) | |
tree | 406d8f7778691d858dbe3e48e4bbb10e99c0a58a /drivers/input/input.c | |
parent | d62b4892f3d9f7dd2002e5309be10719d6805b0f (diff) | |
parent | a937536b868b8369b98967929045f1df54234323 (diff) |
Merge tag 'v3.9-rc3' into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge so that I can merge Imre Deak's coalesced sg entries fixes,
which depend upon the new for_each_sg_page introduce in
commit a321e91b6d73ed011ffceed384c40d2785cf723b
Author: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Date: Wed Feb 27 17:02:56 2013 -0800
lib/scatterlist: add simple page iterator
The merge itself is just two trivial conflicts:
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/input/input.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/input/input.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/input.c b/drivers/input/input.c index ce01332f7b3a..c04469928925 100644 --- a/drivers/input/input.c +++ b/drivers/input/input.c @@ -1785,12 +1785,13 @@ static void devm_input_device_release(struct device *dev, void *res) * its driver (or binding fails). Once managed input device is allocated, * it is ready to be set up and registered in the same fashion as regular * input device. There are no special devm_input_device_[un]register() - * variants, regular ones work with both managed and unmanaged devices. + * variants, regular ones work with both managed and unmanaged devices, + * should you need them. In most cases however, managed input device need + * not be explicitly unregistered or freed. * * NOTE: the owner device is set up as parent of input device and users * should not override it. */ - struct input_dev *devm_input_allocate_device(struct device *dev) { struct input_dev *input; @@ -2004,6 +2005,17 @@ static void devm_input_device_unregister(struct device *dev, void *res) * Once device has been successfully registered it can be unregistered * with input_unregister_device(); input_free_device() should not be * called in this case. + * + * Note that this function is also used to register managed input devices + * (ones allocated with devm_input_allocate_device()). Such managed input + * devices need not be explicitly unregistered or freed, their tear down + * is controlled by the devres infrastructure. It is also worth noting + * that tear down of managed input devices is internally a 2-step process: + * registered managed input device is first unregistered, but stays in + * memory and can still handle input_event() calls (although events will + * not be delivered anywhere). The freeing of managed input device will + * happen later, when devres stack is unwound to the point where device + * allocation was made. */ int input_register_device(struct input_dev *dev) { |