ssam_device_get(9)

✨ ssam_device_get — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the Linux kernel, hanging out in the Surface Aggregator subsystem (yes, that's the 9 in ssam_device_get(9) — kernel API manual, we're fancy 💅), and you've got yourself an SSAM client device. This page is about bumping its reference count so it doesn't get yeeted out from under you. Let's get into it 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ssam_device_get — Increment reference count of SSAM client device.

Literally just "keep this device alive" energy ✨

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

struct ssam_device * ssam_device_get (struct ssam_device *sdev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sdev — The device to increment the reference count of. That's it, that's the whole argument, she's simple and she knows it 💖

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So here's the tea ☕: this function increments the reference count of the given SSAM client device. But like — how? Not by magic, bestie. It does it by incrementing the reference count of the enclosed struct device via get_device. The vibe check happens at the inner device level 🔥

And when you're done holding onto it, see ssam_device_put for the counter-part of this function. They're a matched set, yin and yang, get/put, iconic duo 🫶

No cap: every get needs its put, or you're spilling refs and that's not the main character move you think it is 😭

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns the device provided as input. Same device, more refs — it's giving "return to sender but make it a reference count" 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h — go read it, it's important iykyk 👑

• enum ssam_device_domain(9)
• enum ssam_virtual_tc(9)
• struct ssam_device_uid(9)
• SSAM_DEVICE(9)
• SSAM_VDEV(9)
• SSAM_SDEV(9)
• struct ssam_device(9)
• struct ssam_device_driver(9)
• is_ssam_device(9)
• to_ssam_device(9)
• to_ssam_device_driver(9)
• ssam_device_mark_hot_removed(9)
• ssam_device_is_hot_removed(9)
• ssam_device_put(9)
• ssam_device_get_drvdata(9)
• ssam_device_set_drvdata(9)
• ssam_device_driver_register(9)
• module_ssam_device_driver(9)
• ssam_register_clients(9)
• ssam_device_register_clients(9)
• SSAM_DEFINE_SYNC_REQUEST_CL_N(9)
• SSAM_DEFINE_SYNC_REQUEST_CL_W(9)
• SSAM_DEFINE_SYNC_REQUEST_CL_R(9)
• SSAM_DEFINE_SYNC_REQUEST_CL_WR(9)
• ssam_device_notifier_register(9)
• ssam_device_notifier_unregister(9)

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💖 That's the whole page, babe! 💖 This little gift came out of the kernel file ./include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h, dated October 2026 — slay, go forth and manage your reference counts responsibly 🧚‍♀️✨🍓