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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/platform.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 30480f6f2af2..17b5ece8f82c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -292,20 +292,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_add);
* @pdev: platform device we're removing
*
* Note that this function will also release all memory- and port-based
- * resources owned by the device (@dev->resource).
+ * resources owned by the device (@dev->resource). This function
+ * must _only_ be externally called in error cases. All other usage
+ * is a bug.
*/
void platform_device_del(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
int i;
if (pdev) {
+ device_del(&pdev->dev);
+
for (i = 0; i < pdev->num_resources; i++) {
struct resource *r = &pdev->resource[i];
if (r->flags & (IORESOURCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_IO))
release_resource(r);
}
-
- device_del(&pdev->dev);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del);