Re: [RFC] Sample kset/ktype/kobject implementation

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:04:06 -0800,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> static struct foo_obj *create_foo_obj(const char *name)
> {
> 	struct foo_obj *foo;
> 	int retval;
> 
> 	/* allocate the memory for the whole object */
> 	foo = kzalloc(sizeof(*foo), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!foo)
> 		return NULL;
> 
> 	/* initialize the kobject portion of the object properly */
> 	kobject_set_name(&foo->kobj, "%s", name);

Returncode not checked :)

> 	foo->kobj.kset = example_kset;
> 	foo->kobj.ktype = &foo_ktype;
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Register the kobject with the kernel, all the default files will
> 	 * be created here and the uevent will be sent out.  If we were to
> 	 * call kobject_init() and then kobject_add() we would be
> 	 * responsible for sending out the initial KOBJ_ADD uevent.
> 	 */
> 	retval = kobject_register(&foo->kobj);
> 	if (retval) {
> 		kfree(foo);

kobject_put(foo) is needed since it gets you through kobject_cleanup()
where the name can be freed.

> 		return NULL;
> 	}
> 
> 	return foo;
> }
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