- * am7xxx_device in the 'dev' parameter; the function returns 0 on success,
- * 1 if the device was already open and a negative value on error.
+ * am7xxx_device in the 'dev' parameter; the function returns the value from
+ * open_device(), which is 0 on success, 1 if the device was already open and
+ * a negative value on error.