DEVICE_INITIALIZE(9) Device drivers infrastructure DEVICE_INITIALIZE(9)NAMEdevice_initialize - init device structure.
SYNOPSIS
void device_initialize(struct device * dev);
ARGUMENTS
dev
device.
DESCRIPTION
This prepares the device for use by other layers by initializing its
fields. It is the first half of device_register, if called by that
function, though it can also be called separately, so one may use dev's
fields. In particular, get_device/put_device may be used for reference
counting of dev after calling this function.
All fields in dev must be initialized by the caller to 0, except for
those explicitly set to some other value. The simplest approach is to
use kzalloc to allocate the structure containing dev.
NOTE
Use put_device to give up your reference instead of freeing dev
directly once you have called this function.
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