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Documentation: vkms: clarify devres managed reference cleanup

added documentation to drm_dev_unregister clarifying that devres managed
devices allocated with devm_drm_dev_alloc do not require calls to
drm_dev_put.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Pollack <brpol@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230425080240.3582324-1-brpol@chromium.org

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Brandon Pollack and committed by
Sean Paul
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drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
··· 969 969 * 970 970 * Unregister the DRM device from the system. This does the reverse of 971 971 * drm_dev_register() but does not deallocate the device. The caller must call 972 - * drm_dev_put() to drop their final reference. 972 + * drm_dev_put() to drop their final reference, unless it is managed with devres 973 + * (as devices allocated with devm_drm_dev_alloc() are), in which case there is 974 + * already an unwind action registered. 973 975 * 974 976 * A special form of unregistering for hotpluggable devices is drm_dev_unplug(), 975 977 * which can be called while there are still open users of @dev.