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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kobject.txt5
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c1
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);
}
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