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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-12-04 07:45:47 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-12-17 19:33:18 +0100
commit8c4606b1a4f6eb09344294b7f11641f36cd402af (patch)
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parentMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 (diff)
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kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name works
Thanks to Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> for pointing out that I forgot to update the comment when I rewrote kobject_set_name. Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index b52e9f4ef371..3590f022a609 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ int kobject_register(struct kobject * kobj)
/**
- * kobject_set_name - Set the name of an object
- * @kobj: object.
- * @fmt: format string used to build the name
+ * kobject_set_name - Set the name of a kobject
+ * @kobj: kobject to name
+ * @fmt: format string used to build the name
*
- * If strlen(name) >= KOBJ_NAME_LEN, then use a dynamically allocated
- * string that @kobj->k_name points to. Otherwise, use the static
- * @kobj->name array.
+ * This sets the name of the kobject. If you have already added the
+ * kobject to the system, you must call kobject_rename() in order to
+ * change the name of the kobject.
*/
int kobject_set_name(struct kobject * kobj, const char * fmt, ...)
{