diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index c3cf2feb5cd2..396ad534aa6e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
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-refs/heads/master: d00985f3dd5339eb3068e53f5704ae007ee62f90
+refs/heads/master: 3fafb0ce92f13d14ba1c1340ac185e5c78fc7eae
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches b/trunk/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
index 86f42e8e9e49..790f774a3032 100644
--- a/trunk/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
+++ b/trunk/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted.
   review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated
   than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead.
 
+* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale
+  and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt.
+
 * If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages
   and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it
   must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported".