device_destroy(9)

device_destroy9

Removes a device that was created with device_create

Usage

void device_destroy(struct class * class, dev_t devt);

Arguments

class

pointer to the struct class that this device was registered with

devt

the dev_t of the device that was previously registered

Overview

This call unregisters and cleans up a device that was created with a call to device_create.

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.