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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
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10					     June 2014							     GET_DEVICE(9)