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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
index cee0cc522ed9..12687dd9e1ac 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
@@ -969,7 +969,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_register);
*
* Unregister the DRM device from the system. This does the reverse of
* drm_dev_register() but does not deallocate the device. The caller must call
- * drm_dev_put() to drop their final reference.
+ * drm_dev_put() to drop their final reference, unless it is managed with devres
+ * (as devices allocated with devm_drm_dev_alloc() are), in which case there is
+ * already an unwind action registered.
*
* A special form of unregistering for hotpluggable devices is drm_dev_unplug(),
* which can be called while there are still open users of @dev.