freebsd man page for devtoname

Query: devtoname

OS: freebsd

Section: 9

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DEVTONAME(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					      DEVTONAME(9)

NAME
devtoname -- converts character device into a string indicating the device name
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/conf.h> const char * devtoname(struct cdev *dev);
DESCRIPTION
The devtoname() function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it. The name is whatever was set to it in make_dev().
HISTORY
The devtoname() interface first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0
BSD
February 10, 2012 BSD
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