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docs/sysfs: Update directory/kobject documentation.
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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: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Bart Van Assche authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Feb 3, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common
ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects
belong to.

Sysfs internally stores the kobject that owns the directory in the
->d_fsdata pointer of the directory's dentry. This allows sysfs to do
reference counting directly on the kobject when the file is opened and
closed.
Sysfs internally stores a pointer to the kobject that implements a
directory in the sysfs_dirent object associated with the directory. In
the past this kobject pointer has been used by sysfs to do reference
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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