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initialize a kobject structure and add it to the kobject hierarchy
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">kobject_init_and_add </b>(</code></td><td>struct kobject * <var class="pdparam">kobj</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct kobj_type * <var class="pdparam">ktype</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct kobject * <var class="pdparam">parent</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char * <var class="pdparam">fmt</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> <var class="pdparam">...</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3041249"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>kobj</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
pointer to the kobject to initialize
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>ktype</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
pointer to the ktype for this kobject.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>parent</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
pointer to the parent of this kobject.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>fmt</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
the name of the kobject.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>...</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
variable arguments
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id3041345"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
This function combines the call to <code class="function">kobject_init</code> and
<code class="function">kobject_add</code>. The same type of error handling after a call to
<code class="function">kobject_add</code> and kobject lifetime rules are the same here.
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