device_get_name(9)

device_get_name9

Access the name of a device's device class or instance

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/bus.h>

const char *

device_get_name(device_t dev);

const char *

device_get_nameunit(device_t dev);

Overview

The device_get_name() function returns the name of the device's device class.

The device_get_nameunit() function returns the name of the device's instance.

Releases

55 releases since FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.1
  2. 5.2–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Warner Losh.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.