devtoname(9)

devtoname9

Converts character device into a string indicating the device name

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/conf.h>

const char *

devtoname(struct cdev *dev);

Overview

The devtoname() function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it. The name is whatever was set to it in make_dev().

Releases

70 releases since FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE; the text changed 37 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 4.1–4.3
  3. 4.4
  4. 4.5–4.11
  5. 5.0–5.1
  6. 5.2–6.3
  7. 6.4
  8. 7.0
  9. 7.1
  10. 7.2
  11. 7.3
  12. 7.4
  13. 8.0
  14. 8.1
  15. 8.2
  16. 8.3
  17. 8.4
  18. 9.0
  19. 9.1
  20. 9.2
  21. 9.3
  22. 10.0
  23. 10.1
  24. 10.2
  25. 10.3
  26. 10.4
  27. 11.0
  28. 11.1
  29. 11.2
  30. 11.3
  31. 11.4
  32. 12.0
  33. 12.1
  34. 12.2
  35. 12.3
  36. 12.4
  37. 13.0–13.2
  38. 13.3–16.0

History

The devtoname() interface first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0

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