Re: kobjects, sysfs and the driver model make my head hurt

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:42:07 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Why on earth does it return the value of its argument?

Maybe for the same reason 'strcpy' returns 'dest'. It allows you to use
the function in a function parameter :

obj *get(obj *o);
int rel(obj *o);
int foo(int q, obj *o);

foo(17, get(o));
rel(o);

- Davide

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