class_find_device_by_name(9)

💖 class_find_device_by_name (9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a little function that goes on a whole little quest through a class to find you one specific device by name. it's giving "personal shopper, but for struct device" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

class_find_device_by_name — device iterator for locating a particular device of a specific name.

like, it literally iterates so you don't have to 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct device * class_find_device_by_name (const struct class *class ,
const char *name );

it hands you back a struct device *, no cap.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• class — class type. this is the class you're digging through, the whole vibe-check zone 🗂️
• name — name of the device to match. the exact thing you're looking for, the main character we're trying to find 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./include/linux/device/class.h
• struct class(9)
• class_find_device_by_of_node(9)
• class_find_device_by_fwnode(9)
• class_find_device_by_devt(9)
• `class_find_device_by_acpi_dev(9)

like, all the other finders — the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

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ngl, if you got here you were probably looking for a device by its name. slay. go get 'em 🧚

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✨ that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this gem lives in ./include/linux/device, dated October 2026, and that's the tea 💜🍓