device_unregister(9)

device_unregister9

Unregister device from system.

Usage

void device_unregister(struct device * dev);

Arguments

dev

device going away.

Overview

We do this in two parts, like we do device_register. First, we remove it from all the subsystems with device_del, then we decrement the reference count via put_device. If that is the final reference count, the device will be cleaned up via device_release above. Otherwise, the structure will stick around until the final reference to the device is dropped.

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.