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authorTomas Vanek <vanekt@fbl.cz>2022-04-29 10:10:58 +0200
committerAntonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>2022-05-07 11:04:45 +0000
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target: document possibly unreachable target in deinit_target()
Change-Id: I95ff3d200bb2c8f5bc43a34c92726d9c47f8c172 Signed-off-by: Tomas Vanek <vanekt@fbl.cz> Reviewed-on: https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/6953 Tested-by: jenkins Reviewed-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/target/target_type.h b/src/target/target_type.h
index d6b6086..a26c2e7 100644
--- a/src/target/target_type.h
+++ b/src/target/target_type.h
@@ -242,6 +242,17 @@ struct target_type {
/**
* Free all the resources allocated by the target.
*
+ * WARNING: deinit_target is called unconditionally regardless the target has
+ * ever been examined/initialised or not.
+ * If a problem has prevented establishing JTAG/SWD/... communication
+ * or
+ * if the target was created with -defer-examine flag and has never been
+ * examined
+ * then it is not possible to communicate with the target.
+ *
+ * If you need to talk to the target during deinit, first check if
+ * target_was_examined()!
+ *
* @param target The target to deinit
*/
void (*deinit_target)(struct target *target);