dmi_find_device(9)

🎀 dmi_find_device(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the dmi_find_device(9) page, and it's literally about finding an onboard device by type/name. Main character energy for firmware lookup, no cap. Let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dmi_find_device - find onboard device by type/name

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device (int type , const char *name ,
       const struct dmi_device *from );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• type — device type, or DMI_DEV_TYPE_ANY to match, like, all device types.
• name — device name string, or NULL to match all.
• from — previous device found in search, or NULL for a new search.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: it iterates through the list of known onboard devices. If a device is found with a matching type and name, you get back a pointer to its device structure. Otherwise, NULL is returned. A new search is initiated by passing NULL as the from argument. If from is not NULL, searches continue from the next device. 💫

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
• dmi_setup(9)
• dmi_matches(9)
• dmi_is_end_of_table(9)
• dmi_check_system(9)
• dmi_first_match(9)
• dmi_get_system_info(9)
• dmi_name_in_serial(9)
• dmi_name_in_vendors(9)
• dmi_get_date(9)
• dmi_get_bios_year(9)
• dmi_walk(9)
• dmi_match(9)
• dmi_memdev_type(9)
• dmi_memdev_handle(9)

mwah 💋 that's the whole page, bestie. Source/version: ./drivers/firmware · date: October 2026. Now go be iconic with your DMI lookups 🫶✨