Re: [PATCH] node: put_device after failing to device_register

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:30:07PM +0800, Zhi Song wrote:
> device_register() is used to register a device with the system.
> 
> We cannot directly free dev after calling this function,
> even if it returns an error.

the device is not being freed, why say this?

And you do have a full 72 columns to use :)

> 
> We should use put_device() to give up the reference
> initialized in this function instead.

There is no "instead" happening here.  The patch looks correct, but this
changelog text does not.  Please fix up.

thanks,

greg k-h