From foo@baz Tue Apr 9 12:12:43 2002 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:13:05 -0800 To: Greg KH From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Kobject: remove kobject_unregister() as no one uses it anymore There are no in-kernel users of kobject_unregister() so it should be removed. Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/kobject.h | 2 -- lib/kobject.c | 17 ----------------- 2 files changed, 19 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/kobject.h +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h @@ -101,8 +101,6 @@ extern struct kobject * __must_check kob extern int __must_check kobject_rename(struct kobject *, const char *new_name); extern int __must_check kobject_move(struct kobject *, struct kobject *); -extern void kobject_unregister(struct kobject *); - extern struct kobject * kobject_get(struct kobject *); extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *); --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -533,22 +533,6 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj) } /** - * kobject_unregister - remove object from hierarchy and decrement refcount. - * @kobj: object going away. - */ - -void kobject_unregister(struct kobject * kobj) -{ - if (!kobj) - return; - pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s\n", - kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __FUNCTION__); - kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE); - kobject_del(kobj); - kobject_put(kobj); -} - -/** * kobject_get - increment refcount for object. * @kobj: object. */ @@ -877,7 +861,6 @@ struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const c } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kset_create_and_add); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_unregister); EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get); EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_put); EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_del);