best_dev_name(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to best_dev_name(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this one is literally about getting the "best" device name. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

const char * best_dev_name (struct device *dev );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• dev — the device, bestie. That’s the whole argument. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So this function returns the device tree compatible name if the device has a DT node. If it doesn’t have one, it returns the device name instead. No cap.

The reason this exists is lowkey iconic: clkdev lookups are limited to 20 chars for dev_id, and when you’re using device tree, dev_name(dev) is much longer than that. So yeah — this is the little helper that saves the vibe. 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./drivers/clk/davinci/psc.c
• struct davinci_lpsc_clk(9)
• davinci_lpsc_clk_register(9)

And that’s the page, bestie! 💖 Shoutout to the source/version at ./drivers/clk/davinci, with a date stamp of October 2026 — best_dev_name(9) said what it said, periodt. 👑🌈