gpio_device_get(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to gpio_device_get(9) from the Kernel API Manual — here's the name reveal: gpio_device_get — Increase the reference count of this GPIO device. That's the whole assignment. Slay. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct gpio_device * gpio_device_get (struct gpio_device *gdev );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• gdev — the GPIO device to increase the refcount for. That's the one and only argument, bestie. No hidden extras, no side quests. 🎀

🦋 RETURN 🦋

Pointer to gdev. Yep, it hands the same gdev pointer right back to you. Iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file is ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c, and the whole friend group is here — every single SEE ALSO reference, no cap:

• gpio_to_desc(9)
• gpio_device_get_desc(9)
• desc_to_gpio(9)
• gpiod_hwgpio(9)
• gpiod_to_chip(9)
• gpiod_to_gpio_device(9)
• gpio_device_get_base(9)
• gpio_device_get_label(9)
• gpio_device_get_chip(9)
• gpiochip_find_base_unlocked(9)
• gpiod_is_equal(9)
• gpiod_get_direction(9)
• gpiod_is_single_ended(9)
• gpiochip_query_valid_mask(9)
• gpiochip_get_data(9)
• gpiochip_remove(9)
• gpio_device_find(9)
• gpio_device_find_by_label(9)
• gpio_device_find_by_fwnode(9)
• gpio_device_put(9)
• gpio_device_to_device(9)
• gpiochip_set_hierarchical_irqchip(9)
• gpiochip_irq_domain_activate(9)
• gpiochip_irq_domain_deactivate(9)
• gpiochip_irq_map(9)
• gpiochip_add_irqchip(9)
• gpiochip_irqchip_remove(9)
• gpiochip_irqchip_add_domain(9)
• gpiochip_generic_request(9)
• gpiochip_generic_free(9)
• gpiochip_generic_config(9)
• gpiochip_add_pingroup_range(9)
• gpiochip_add_pin_range_with_pins(9)
• gpiochip_remove_pin_ranges(9)
• gpiochip_dup_line_label(9)
• gpiochip_request_own_desc(9)
• gpiochip_free_own_desc(9)
• gpio_set_debounce_timeout(9)
• gpiod_direction_input(9)
• gpiod_direction_output_raw(9)
• gpiod_direction_output(9)
• gpiod_enable_hw_timestamp_ns(9)
• gpiod_disable_hw_timestamp_ns(9)
• gpiod_set_config(9)
• gpiod_set_debounce(9)
• gpiod_set_transitory(9)
• gpiod_is_active_low(9)
• gpiod_toggle_active_low(9)
• gpiod_get_raw_value(9)
• gpiod_get_value(9)
• gpiod_get_raw_array_value(9)
• gpiod_get_array_value(9)
• gpiod_set_raw_value(9)
• gpiod_set_value_nocheck(9)
• gpiod_set_value(9)
• gpiod_set_raw_array_value(9)
• gpiod_set_array_value(9)
• gpiod_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_set_consumer_name(9)
• gpiod_is_shared(9)
• gpiod_to_irq(9)
• gpiochip_lock_as_irq(9)
• gpiochip_unlock_as_irq(9)
• gpiod_get_raw_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_get_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_get_raw_array_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_get_array_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_set_raw_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_set_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_set_raw_array_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_add_lookup_tables(9)
• gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep(9)
• gpiod_add_lookup_table(9)
• gpiod_remove_lookup_table(9)
• fwnode_gpiod_get_index(9)
• gpiod_count(9)
• gpiod_get(9)
• gpiod_get_optional(9)
• gpiod_configure_flags(9)
• gpiod_get_index(9)
• gpiod_get_index_optional(9)
• gpiod_hog(9)
• gpiochip_free_hogs(9)
• gpiod_get_array(9)
• gpiod_get_array_optional(9)
• gpiod_put(9)
• gpiod_put_array(9)

Signed with love from ./drivers/gpio — October 2026 — this was gpio_device_get(9), bestie. 💜🫶✨