DEVICE_RENAME

Section: Device drivers infrastructure (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

device_rename - renames a device  

SYNOPSIS

int device_rename(struct device * dev, const char * new_name);
 

ARGUMENTS

dev

the pointer to the struct device to be renamed

new_name

the new name of the device
 

DESCRIPTION

It is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion between two different calls of device_rename on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and won't conflict with other devices.  

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