Thierry Reding
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Devices are created for each port of the XUSB pad controller. Each USB 2 and USB 3 port can potentially have an associated VBUS power supply that needs to be removed when the device is removed. Since port devices never bind to a driver, the driver core will not get to perform the cleanup of device-managed resources that usually happens on driver unbind. Now, the driver core will also perform device-managed resource cleanup for driver-less devices when they are released. However, when a device link is created between the regulator and the port device, as part of regulator_get(), the regulator takes a reference to the port device and prevents it from being released unless regulator_put() is called, which will never happen. Avoid this by using the non-device-managed API and manually releasing the regulator reference when the port is unregistered. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.