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authorEduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>2013-04-23 21:48:18 +0000
committerZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>2013-04-25 00:56:32 +0800
commit3a6eccb35219a7cfa7c7bbac16aa344d4a336fd4 (patch)
treed2d8bd6ad8a76b3c554c94d5f6c48e93f7cc942f /drivers/thermal
parent9892e5dc56f185d104e6dddd1e2d0f6ae8f4f211 (diff)
downloadlinux-3a6eccb35219a7cfa7c7bbac16aa344d4a336fd4.tar.bz2
thermal: update kernel-doc for thermal_cooling_device_register
This patch updates the documentation for thermal_cooling_device_register and removes the warnings generated by scripts/kernel-doc -v. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/thermal')
-rw-r--r--drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index 9550e6897114..15220f9c849f 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1287,10 +1287,17 @@ static struct class thermal_class = {
};
/**
- * thermal_cooling_device_register - register a new thermal cooling device
+ * thermal_cooling_device_register() - register a new thermal cooling device
* @type: the thermal cooling device type.
* @devdata: device private data.
* @ops: standard thermal cooling devices callbacks.
+ *
+ * This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...)
+ * to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. It tries to bind itself
+ * to all the thermal zone devices registered at the same time.
+ *
+ * Return: a pointer to the created struct thermal_cooling_device or an
+ * ERR_PTR. Caller must check return value with IS_ERR*() helpers.
*/
struct thermal_cooling_device *
thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata,