/** * get_device - increment reference count for device. * @dev: device. * * This simply forwards the call to kobject_get(), though * we do take care to provide for the case that we get a NULL * pointer passed in. */ struct device *get_device(struct device *dev) { return dev ? kobj_to_dev(kobject_get(&dev->kobj)) : NULL;
} EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_device);