linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code

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Message-ID: <20071129104115.034c3469@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:41:15 +0100
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:04:58 -0800,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> > > The uevent function will be called when the uevent is about to be sent to
> > > userspace to allow more environment variables to be added to the uevent.
> > 
> > It may be helpful to mention which uevents are by default created by
> > the kobject core (KOBJ_ADD, KOBJ_DEL, KOBJ_MOVE).
> 
> Is this really needed?

If we go forward with Kay's suggestion of removing kobject_register()
and friends, I guess no.

> > > Often, much of the initialization of a kobject is handled by the layer that
> > > manages the containing kset.  See the sample/kobject/kset-example.c for how
> > > this is usually handled.
> > 
> > Do we also want to mention kobject_rename() and kobject_move(), or are
> > those functions so esoteric that most people don't want to know about
> > them?
> 
> They can be found in the kerneldoc api reference if they are needed :)

OK.
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