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GET_DEVICE(9) Device drivers infrastructure GET_DEVICE(9)

NAME

get_device - increment reference count for device.

SYNOPSIS

struct device * get_device(struct device * dev);

ARGUMENTS

dev
device.

DESCRIPTION

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.

COPYRIGHT

February 2017 Kernel Hackers Manual 3.16