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author | Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> | 2010-12-21 07:09:23 -0500 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-02-03 18:10:18 -0500 |
commit | 5480bcdd60603f834b7c0c252213ca1932c28bfc (patch) | |
tree | 3b56a6e23cc99d0e651e16432070065530e7d6ab /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |
parent | a5462516aa9942bd68c8769d4bcefa8a7c718300 (diff) |
docs/sysfs: Update directory/kobject documentation.
Some time ago the way how sysfs stores a pointer to a kobject
corresponding to a directory was modified. This patch brings the
documentation again in sync with the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 5d1335faec2d..2ed95f9b770a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |||
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common | |||
39 | ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects | 39 | ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects |
40 | belong to. | 40 | belong to. |
41 | 41 | ||
42 | Sysfs internally stores the kobject that owns the directory in the | 42 | Sysfs internally stores a pointer to the kobject that implements a |
43 | ->d_fsdata pointer of the directory's dentry. This allows sysfs to do | 43 | directory in the sysfs_dirent object associated with the directory. In |
44 | reference counting directly on the kobject when the file is opened and | 44 | the past this kobject pointer has been used by sysfs to do reference |
45 | closed. | 45 | counting directly on the kobject whenever the file is opened or closed. |
46 | With the current sysfs implementation the kobject reference count is | ||
47 | only modified directly by the function sysfs_schedule_callback(). | ||
46 | 48 | ||
47 | 49 | ||
48 | Attributes | 50 | Attributes |