On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:31:35 -0800,
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>       /*
>        * Initialize and add the kobject to the kernel.  All the default files
>        * will be created here.  As we have already specified a kset for this
>        * kobject, we don't have to set a parent for the kobject, the kobject
>        * will be placed beneath that kset automatically.
>        */
>       retval = kobject_init_and_add(&foo->kobj, &foo_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
>       if (retval) {
>               kfree(foo);
>               return NULL;
>       }

I really hate to say this, but the example is still wrong. There needs
to be a kobject_put(&foo->kobj) instead of the kfree(foo) (as the
comments for kobject_init_and_add() resp. kobject_add_ng() correctly
explain :))
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