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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-12-03 21:31:08 -0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-01-24 20:40:09 -0800 |
commit | e86000d042d23904bbb609af2f8618a541cf129b (patch) | |
tree | f31e28280e33248a3cd82ae2bcfa5b51c12d9984 /lib/kobject.c | |
parent | 18041f4775688af073d9b3ab0ffc262c1847e60b (diff) | |
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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 <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index a152036..60586bc 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -283,6 +283,48 @@ 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. * @new_name: object's new name |