get_device(9)

get_device9

Increment reference count for device.

Usage

struct device * get_device(struct device * dev);

Arguments

dev

device.

Overview

This simply forwards the call to kobject_get, though we do take care to provide for the case that we get a NULL pointer passed in.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.