Document that drivers must first initialise a media device before registering it, and clean up once the media device is unregistered. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst index 57b5bbba944e..02481a2513b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst @@ -42,9 +42,16 @@ Allocation of the structure is handled by the media device driver, usually by embedding the :c:type:`media_device` instance in a larger driver-specific structure. -Drivers register media device instances by calling -:c:func:`__media_device_register()` via the macro ``media_device_register()`` -and unregistered by calling :c:func:`media_device_unregister()`. +Drivers initialise media device instances by calling +:c:func:`media_device_init()`. After initialising a media device instance, it is +registered by calling :c:func:`__media_device_register()` via the macro +``media_device_register()`` and unregistered by calling +:c:func:`media_device_unregister()`. An initialised media device must be +eventually cleaned up by calling :c:func:`media_device_cleanup()`. + +Note that it is not allowed to unregister a media device instance that was not +previously registered, or clean up a media device instance that was not +previously initialised. Entities ^^^^^^^^ -- 2.30.2
