Importance of kobject

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:08 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.

To state a not-so-popular analogy, kobjects can also be viewed as root
object in object oriented programming. So a bit like java.lang.Object.
Of course it is not a root object and indeed C is not OO, but this
view helps in thinking about it.

This section from ldd3 lists some of the tasks handled by kobject:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-14-sect-1. So whichever struct
ultimately encapsulates (inherits from) kobject will have those tasks
handled for it for free. This view is in addition to others expressed
here.

HTH
Okash