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authorBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>2010-12-21 07:09:23 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-02-03 18:10:18 -0500
commit5480bcdd60603f834b7c0c252213ca1932c28bfc (patch)
tree3b56a6e23cc99d0e651e16432070065530e7d6ab /Documentation/filesystems
parenta5462516aa9942bd68c8769d4bcefa8a7c718300 (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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
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@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common
39ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects 39ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects
40belong to. 40belong to.
41 41
42Sysfs internally stores the kobject that owns the directory in the 42Sysfs internally stores a pointer to the kobject that implements a
43->d_fsdata pointer of the directory's dentry. This allows sysfs to do 43directory in the sysfs_dirent object associated with the directory. In
44reference counting directly on the kobject when the file is opened and 44the past this kobject pointer has been used by sysfs to do reference
45closed. 45counting directly on the kobject whenever the file is opened or closed.
46With the current sysfs implementation the kobject reference count is
47only modified directly by the function sysfs_schedule_callback().
46 48
47 49
48Attributes 50Attributes