input_free_device(9)

input_free_device9

Free memory occupied by input_dev structure

Usage

void input_free_device(struct input_dev * dev);

Arguments

dev

input device to free

Overview

This function should only be used if input_register_device was not called yet or if it failed. Once device was registered use input_unregister_device and memory will be freed once last reference to the device is dropped.

Device should be allocated by input_allocate_device.

Note

If there are references to the input device then memory will not be freed until last reference 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.