GET_DEVICE

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

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