device_del(9)

device_del9

Delete device from system.

Usage

void device_del(struct device * dev);

Arguments

dev

device.

Overview

This is the first part of the device unregistration sequence. This removes the device from the lists we control from here, has it removed from the other driver model subsystems it was added to in device_add, and removes it from the kobject hierarchy.

Note

this should be called manually _iff_ device_add was also called manually.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.