kobject_create(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 kobject_create(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for kobject_create(9) — this is the glow-up origin story for a kobject, and yes it's as iconic as it sounds 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kobject_create — Create a struct kobject dynamically. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it beautifully 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct kobject * kobject_create (void );

like, no arguments, no drama, just vibes 🦋

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • void — no arguments. nothing. zero. the empty set. she needs nobody, she's the main character 👑

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function creates a kobject structure dynamically and sets it up to be a "dynamic" kobject, with a default release function already hooked up. so she comes out the box already ready, no extra assembly required ✨

if the kobject was not able to be created, NULL will be returned. that's the sad path, hope you never see it 😭

⚠️ important bestie!! the kobject structure returned from here must be cleaned up with a call to kobject_put and not kfree, because kobject_init has already been called on this structure. like, do not just free her raw, that's not the move, that will ruin everything 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./lib/kobject.c — go read it, iykyk 📖 and also these icons, all of them, no skipping:

mwah 💋 that's the page. this absolute queen lives in ./lib and the whole thing is dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's new, she's fresh, and she ate. periodt 🫶🌈⭐

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