From: Anirudh Venkataramanan <[email protected]>

Add some details to the function header for ice_deinit_hw.

Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
index 6988eb8695f1..1c94be588716 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
@@ -862,6 +862,10 @@ enum ice_status ice_init_hw(struct ice_hw *hw)
 /**
  * ice_deinit_hw - unroll initialization operations done by ice_init_hw
  * @hw: pointer to the hardware structure
+ *
+ * This should be called only during nominal operation, not as a result of
+ * ice_init_hw() failing since ice_init_hw() will take care of unrolling
+ * applicable initializations if it fails for any reason.
  */
 void ice_deinit_hw(struct ice_hw *hw)
 {
-- 
2.21.0

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