.\" 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 "POPULATE_DIR" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME populate_dir \- populate directory with attributes. .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int populate_dir (struct kobject * \fIkobj\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIkobj\fB\fR object we're working on. .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Most subsystems have a set of default attributes that are associated with an object that registers with them. This is a helper called during object registration that loops through the default attributes of the subsystem and creates attributes files for them in sysfs.