Re: [Bug? Report] kref problem

Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16T18:00:25Z

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Again, why are you trying to call the sysfs raw functions? You are not
> registering the kobject with the kobject core, so bad things are
> happening. Why not call kobject_register() or kobject_add(), like it is
> documented to do so?

Well, we were discussing this with you some time ago, and you pointed me
to these raw functions. My stuff just does not fit device/driver/bu
modes and you said I have to create whatever sysfs hierarchy I want with
the raw functions.

kobject_register()/kobject_del() instead of
sysfs_create_dir()/sysfs_remove_dir() solved my problem, thanks. Just to
refine this, I'm still going to use
sysfs_create_file()/sysfs_remove_file() to create whatever attributes I
want, is this right?

I've just noticed similarity in naming: sysfs_remove_file() creates a
file, so the symmetrical sysfs_create_dir() creates a directory. So just
started using it. From the names it was not obvious that I could
not. :-)

Thanks.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.