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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2008-10-20 16:07:19 +0100 |
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| committer | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2008-10-20 16:07:19 +0100 |
| commit | 61e0e79ee3c609eb34edf2fe023708cba6a79b1f (patch) | |
| tree | 663deacffd4071120dc9badb70428fe5f124c7b9 /Documentation/kobject.txt | |
| parent | c15895ef30c2c03e99802951787183039a349d32 (diff) | |
| parent | 0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-upstream
Conflicts:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
drivers/Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kobject.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kobject.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index 51a8021ee53..f5d2aad65a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ the name of the kobject, call kobject_rename(): int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name); +Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of +what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking +and serialization. + There is a function called kobject_set_name() but that is legacy cruft and is being removed. If your code needs to call this function, it is incorrect and needs to be fixed. |