Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:52:05 +0100 | From | Cornelia Huck <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code |
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:35:54 +0100, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:01 +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:02:52 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > > Among other things, kobject_init() sets the kobject's reference count to > > > one. Calling kobject_init() is not sufficient, however. Kobject users > > > must, at a minimum, set the name of the kobject; this is the name that will > > > be used in sysfs entries. > > > > Unless they don't register their kobject. (But they should always set a > > name anyway to avoid funny debug messages, so it is probably a good > > idea to call this a "must"). > > Yeah, we should require it. And kobject_cleanup() needs to be called to > free the allocated name, if the object is not already added and needs to > be deleted (common in rewinding on error).
Always using kobject_put() should take care of that.
> > Btw, do you have a good example for unregistered/unnamed kobjects?
Unfortunately not (I can only think of devices that might never be registered). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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