Name

kobject_create_and_add — create a struct kobject dynamically and register it with sysfs

Synopsis

struct kobject * kobject_create_and_add (const char * name,
 struct kobject * parent);
 

Arguments

name

the name for the kobject

parent

the parent kobject of this kobject, if any.

Description

This function creates a kobject structure dynamically and registers it with sysfs. When you are finished with this structure, call kobject_put and the structure will be dynamically freed when it is no longer being used.

If the kobject was not able to be created, NULL will be returned.