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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/utils.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/utils.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c index e7ddd281afff..d5cedffeeff9 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c @@ -860,11 +860,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_present); * Return the next match of ACPI device if another matching device was present * at the moment of invocation, or NULL otherwise. * - * FIXME: The function does not tolerate the sudden disappearance of @adev, e.g. - * in the case of a hotplug event. That said, the caller should ensure that - * this will never happen. - * * The caller is responsible for invoking acpi_dev_put() on the returned device. + * On the other hand the function invokes acpi_dev_put() on the given @adev + * assuming that its reference counter had been increased beforehand. * * See additional information in acpi_dev_present() as well. */ @@ -880,6 +878,7 @@ acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev(struct acpi_device *adev, const char *hid, const cha match.hrv = hrv; dev = bus_find_device(&acpi_bus_type, start, &match, acpi_dev_match_cb); + acpi_dev_put(adev); return dev ? to_acpi_device(dev) : NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev); |