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| author |   James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2014-04-14 11:23:14 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2014-04-14 11:23:14 +1000 |
| commit | ecd740c6f2f092b90b95fa35f757973589eaaca2 (patch) | |
| tree | ce02b1e18c4fc5729699251460cd8be7604d8401 /Documentation/kobject.txt | |
| parent | selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 3.14 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-ecd740c6f2f092b90b95fa35f757973589eaaca2.tar.xz linux-dev-ecd740c6f2f092b90b95fa35f757973589eaaca2.zip | |
Merge commit 'v3.14' into next
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diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index c5182bb2c16c..f87241dfed87 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. |