iio_device_get(9)

💖 iio_device_get — NAME ✨

okay so bestie, gather round: iio_device_get is the function that increments the reference count for the device 🎀 that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's the little "hey, don't free this yet, i'm still holding it" tap on the shoulder. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — kernel API, for the devs who like to get up close with the internals 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct iio_dev * iio_device_get (struct iio_dev *indio_dev );

literally just hands you back a pointer to struct iio_dev — no cap 🔥

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• indio_dev — the IIO device structure 🫶 that's the thing you're grabbing a ref on. just pass the struct, she handles it.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

The passed IIO device 😌 — same pointer you gave her, returned right back to you. like a boomerang but for kernel structs 🪃✨

ngl bestie, always pair this with iio_device_put(9) when you're done, or the count just sits there like an unread group chat 💀 (it's in SEE ALSO, don't worry, i got you 🙈)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

everything else in the IIO cinematic universe, fr fr 👑 — start with the kernel file itself:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/iio/iio.h
• struct iio_chan_spec_ext_info(9)
• struct iio_enum(9)
• IIO_ENUM(9)
• IIO_ENUM_AVAILABLE(9)
• struct iio_mount_matrix(9)
• IIO_MOUNT_MATRIX(9)
• struct iio_event_spec(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_UNSIGNED_INT(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT(9)
• struct iio_scan_type(9)
• struct iio_chan_spec(9)
• iio_channel_has_info(9)
• iio_channel_has_available(9)
• struct iio_info(9)
• struct iio_buffer_setup_ops(9)
• struct iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_register(9)
• devm_iio_device_register(9)
• iio_device_claim_direct(9)
• iio_device_release_direct(9)
• iio_device_try_claim_buffer_mode(9)
• iio_device_release_buffer_mode(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_DIRECT_MODE(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_FAILED(9)
• IIO_DEV_GUARD_CURRENT_MODE(9)
• iio_device_put(9)
• dev_to_iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_set_parent(9)
• iio_device_set_drvdata(9)
• iio_device_get_drvdata(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION(9)
• iio_get_debugfs_dentry(9)
• iio_device_suspend_triggering(9)
• iio_device_resume_triggering(9)
• iio_get_current_scan_type(9)
• iio_get_masklength(9)
• iio_for_each_active_channel(9)
• IIO_DEGREE_TO_RAD(9)
• IIO_RAD_TO_DEGREE(9)
• IIO_G_TO_M_S_2(9)
• IIO_M_S_2_TO_G(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this one came straight out of ./include/linux/iio, dated October 2026, and it's filed under iio_device_get(9) — go forth and bump those refcounts responsibly 🎀✨💅