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Converts character device into a string indicating the device name.

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February 10, 2012

DEVTONAME(9)                      BSD Kernel Developer's Manual                      DEVTONAME(9)

NAME
     devtoname — converts character device into a string indicating the device name

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/conf.h>

     const char *
     devtoname(struct cdev *dev);

DESCRIPTION
     The devtoname() function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it.  The name
     is whatever was set to it in make_dev().

HISTORY
     The devtoname() interface first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0

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