[ofa-general] [PATCH net-2.6.24] Fix documentation for dev_put()/dev_hold()

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Sep 18 11:04:22 PDT 2007


It looks like the comments for dev_put() and dev_hold() got reversed somehow.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index be5fe05..239ae68 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ extern int		netdev_budget;
 extern void netdev_run_todo(void);
 
 /**
- *	dev_put - get reference to device
+ *	dev_put - release reference to device
  *	@dev: network device
  *
  * Hold reference to device to keep it from being freed.
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ static inline void dev_put(struct net_device *dev)
 }
 
 /**
- *	dev_hold - release reference to device
+ *	dev_hold - get reference to device
  *	@dev: network device
  *
  * Release reference to device to allow it to be freed.



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