[PATCH v4 14/23] counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions

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In order to replace the counter registration API also update the
documentation to the new way.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
index 1b487a331467..71ccc30e586b 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ order to communicate with the device: to read and write various Signals
 and Counts, and to set and get the "action mode" and "function mode" for
 various Synapses and Counts respectively.
 
-A defined counter_device structure may be registered to the system by
-passing it to the counter_register function, and unregistered by passing
-it to the counter_unregister function. Similarly, the
-devm_counter_register function may be used if device memory-managed
-registration is desired.
+A counter_device structure is allocated using counter_alloc() and then
+registered to the system by passing it to the counter_add() function, and
+unregistered by passing it to the counter_unregister function. There are
+device managed variants of these functions: devm_counter_alloc() and
+devm_counter_add().
 
 The struct counter_comp structure is used to define counter extensions
 for Signals, Synapses, and Counts.
-- 
2.34.1




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