Subject: Re: kobject_uevent
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Ikke <ikke.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:55:49 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:14 +0100, Ikke wrote:

> Next to this, there seems to be a mistake in the 2.6.10 changelog: it writes
> [quote]
> kobject_uevent(const char *signal,
> 	                 struct kobject *kobj,
> 	                 struct attribute *attr)
> [/quote]
> whilst include/linux/kobject_uevent.h defines
> [quote]
> int kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj,
>                    enum kobject_action action,
>                    struct attribute *attr);
> [/quote]
> which is something completely different.

The signal as a string was replaced by the kobject_action enumeration,
which is mapped to a string.  It is just an attempt at providing type
safety.

	Robert Love


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