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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 10 |
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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 |