Fwd: Importance of kobject

Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com
Wed May 17 03:21:01 EDT 2017


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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Importance of kobject
To: Madhu K <madhu.sk89 at gmail.com>


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Madhu K <madhu.sk89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am kernel newbie, I want to know the importance of kobject, can anybody
> explain the importance of kobject with an example.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Madhu
>
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Kobjects play an essential role in the Device Model.
The documentation below may be a good starting point in learning about kobjects:

https://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch14.pdf
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/kobject.txt?h=v4.12-rc1



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