Documentation/auxiliary_bus: Clarify __auxiliary_driver_register

__auxiliary_driver_register is not intended to be called directly unless
a custom name is required.  Add documentation for this fact.

Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202044305.4006853-5-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
index 70a8dbcd31b70da428a5f1db522a935485990646..7192f7d03a05e4be4f6a756f4bb8347df6f54218 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
+++ b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(auxiliary_find_device);
  * @auxdrv: auxiliary_driver structure
  * @owner: owning module/driver
  * @modname: KBUILD_MODNAME for parent driver
+ *
+ * The expectation is that users will call the "auxiliary_driver_register"
+ * macro so that the caller's KBUILD_MODNAME is automatically inserted for the
+ * modname parameter.  Only if a user requires a custom name would this version
+ * be called directly.
  */
 int __auxiliary_driver_register(struct auxiliary_driver *auxdrv,
                                struct module *owner, const char *modname)