提交 5480bcdd 编写于 作者: B Bart Van Assche 提交者: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs/sysfs: Update directory/kobject documentation.

Some time ago the way how sysfs stores a pointer to a kobject
corresponding to a directory was modified. This patch brings the
documentation again in sync with the implementation.
Signed-off-by: NBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
上级 a5462516
...@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common ...@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common
ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects
belong to. belong to.
Sysfs internally stores the kobject that owns the directory in the Sysfs internally stores a pointer to the kobject that implements a
->d_fsdata pointer of the directory's dentry. This allows sysfs to do directory in the sysfs_dirent object associated with the directory. In
reference counting directly on the kobject when the file is opened and the past this kobject pointer has been used by sysfs to do reference
closed. counting directly on the kobject whenever the file is opened or closed.
With the current sysfs implementation the kobject reference count is
only modified directly by the function sysfs_schedule_callback().
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