device_get_parent(9)

device_get_parent9

Return the device's parent

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/bus.h>

device_t

device_get_parent(device_t dev);

Overview

The device_get_parent() function returns the name of the device's parent device.

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.