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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernfs.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index 814643f7ee52..5b36b1287a5a 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -477,10 +477,11 @@ static inline void kernfs_init(void) { } * @buf: buffer to copy @kn's name into * @buflen: size of @buf * - * Builds and returns the full path of @kn in @buf of @buflen bytes. The - * path is built from the end of @buf so the returned pointer usually - * doesn't match @buf. If @buf isn't long enough, @buf is nul terminated - * and %NULL is returned. + * If @kn is NULL result will be "(null)". + * + * Returns the length of the full path. If the full length is equal to or + * greater than @buflen, @buf contains the truncated path with the trailing + * '\0'. On error, -errno is returned. */ static inline int kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen) { |