.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "FILL_READ_BUFFER" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME fill_read_buffer \- allocate and fill buffer from object. .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int fill_read_buffer (struct file * \fIfile\fB, struct sysfs_buffer * \fIbuffer\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIfile\fB\fR file pointer. .TP \fB\fIbuffer\fB\fR data buffer for file. .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Allocate \fIbuffer\fR->page, if it hasn't been already, then call the kobject's \fBshow\fR method to fill the buffer with this attribute's data. This is called only once, on the file's first read.