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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kobject.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index c5182bb..f87241d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt @@ -342,7 +342,10 @@ kset use: When you are finished with the kset, call: void kset_unregister(struct kset *kset); -to destroy it. +to destroy it. This removes the kset from sysfs and decrements its reference +count. When the reference count goes to zero, the kset will be released. +Because other references to the kset may still exist, the release may happen +after kset_unregister() returns. An example of using a kset can be seen in the samples/kobject/kset-example.c file in the kernel tree. diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 1d110dc9..98b45bb 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -855,6 +855,7 @@ void kset_unregister(struct kset *k) { if (!k) return; + kobject_del(&k->kobj); kobject_put(&k->kobj); } |
