On Wed, May 17, 2017, at 04:50 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Madhu K <madhu.sk89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am kernel newbie, I want to know the importance of kobject, can anybody > > > explain the importance of kobject with an example. > > > > To state a not-so-popular analogy, kobjects can also be viewed as root > > object in object oriented programming. So a bit like java.lang.Object. > > Of course it is not a root object and indeed C is not OO, but this > > view helps in thinking about it. > > Well, it _is_ a "root object", and you can write OO code in C, which is > what we did for kobjects (and struct device, and struct class, and kref, > and other things like that.) > > So it is a "popular" analogy, as this is exactly what the authors of the > code were intending for people to see. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Hi, You also have GObject proving that you can do OOP in C. Use kobject like you would a base class. Luis _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
