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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100 |
| commit | a02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch) | |
| tree | bf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /Documentation/kobject.txt | |
| parent | 84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff) | |
| parent | 2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin' into master
Manual merge of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
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. |