From e86000d042d23904bbb609af2f8618a541cf129b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:31:08 -0800 Subject: kobject: add kobject_init_ng function This is what the kobject_init function is going to become. Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it. Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index a152036db006..60586bcc7a71 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -282,6 +282,48 @@ int kobject_set_name(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt, ...) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_set_name); +/** + * kobject_init_ng - initialize a kobject structure + * @kobj: pointer to the kobject to initialize + * @ktype: pointer to the ktype for this kobject. + * + * This function will properly initialize a kobject such that it can then + * be passed to the kobject_add() call. + * + * After this function is called, the kobject MUST be cleaned up by a call + * to kobject_put(), not by a call to kfree directly to ensure that all of + * the memory is cleaned up properly. + */ +void kobject_init_ng(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype) +{ + char *err_str; + + if (!kobj) { + err_str = "invalid kobject pointer!"; + goto error; + } + if (!ktype) { + err_str = "must have a ktype to be initialized properly!\n"; + goto error; + } + if (atomic_read(&kobj->kref.refcount)) { + /* do not error out as sometimes we can recover */ + printk(KERN_ERR "kobject: reference count is already set, " + "something is seriously wrong.\n"); + dump_stack(); + } + + kref_init(&kobj->kref); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kobj->entry); + kobj->ktype = ktype; + return; + +error: + printk(KERN_ERR "kobject: %s\n", err_str); + dump_stack(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_init_ng); + /** * kobject_rename - change the name of an object * @kobj: object in question. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b