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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst
index 2739f8b72575..7310247310a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Initialization of kobjects
Code which creates a kobject must, of course, initialize that object. Some
of the internal fields are setup with a (mandatory) call to kobject_init()::
- void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype);
+ void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, const struct kobj_type *ktype);
The ktype is required for a kobject to be created properly, as every kobject
must have an associated kobj_type. After calling kobject_init(), to
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ kobject_name()::
There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the
kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add()::
- int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
+ int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, const struct kobj_type *ktype,
struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);
The arguments are the same as the individual kobject_init() and
@@ -299,7 +299,6 @@ kobj_type::
struct kobj_type {
void (*release)(struct kobject *kobj);
const struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops;
- struct attribute **default_attrs;
const struct attribute_group **default_groups;
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *(*child_ns_type)(struct kobject *kobj);
const void *(*namespace)(struct kobject *kobj);
@@ -313,10 +312,10 @@ call kobject_init() or kobject_init_and_add().
The release field in struct kobj_type is, of course, a pointer to the
release() method for this type of kobject. The other two fields (sysfs_ops
-and default_attrs) control how objects of this type are represented in
+and default_groups) control how objects of this type are represented in
sysfs; they are beyond the scope of this document.
-The default_attrs pointer is a list of default attributes that will be
+The default_groups pointer is a list of default attributes that will be
automatically created for any kobject that is registered with this ktype.
@@ -373,10 +372,9 @@ If a kset wishes to control the uevent operations of the kobjects
associated with it, it can use the struct kset_uevent_ops to handle it::
struct kset_uevent_ops {
- int (* const filter)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj);
- const char *(* const name)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj);
- int (* const uevent)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj,
- struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
+ int (* const filter)(struct kobject *kobj);
+ const char *(* const name)(struct kobject *kobj);
+ int (* const uevent)(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
};