Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:36:32 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ikke <ikke.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobject_uevent
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:25:14PM +0100, Ikke wrote:
> I'm a little confused by the use of KOBJ_* stuff in
> include/linux/kobject_uevent.h and the string representation of them
> in lib/kobject_uevent.c, which means people must edit 2 files if they
> want to add new events?

Yes, that is exactly correct.  The enumerated type is used for the
callers to kobject_uevent* and the string is sent out on the wire from
within the kevent core code.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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