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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2007-05-23 18:08:13 +1000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-06-02 21:01:55 +1000 |
| commit | 5169b8a1659fef9cc093ed3d889a854945a18177 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e230f443c0964c63d178d0fe630ac519801827f /arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | |
| parent | f285e3d329ce68cc355fadf4ab2c8f34d7f264cb (diff) | |
[POWERPC] Update documentation for of_find_node_by_type()
The documentation for of_find_node_by_type() incorrectly refers to the
"name" parameter - it should be "type".
Also the behaviour when from == NULL is not really documented, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c index 066a6a7a25b8..af42ddab3ab4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c @@ -1171,11 +1171,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_by_name); /** * of_find_node_by_type - Find a node by its "device_type" property - * @from: The node to start searching from or NULL, the node - * you pass will not be searched, only the next one - * will; typically, you pass what the previous call - * returned. of_node_put() will be called on it - * @name: The type string to match against + * @from: The node to start searching from, or NULL to start searching + * the entire device tree. The node you pass will not be + * searched, only the next one will; typically, you pass + * what the previous call returned. of_node_put() will be + * called on from for you. + * @type: The type string to match against * * Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use * of_node_put() on it when done. |