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delete device from system.
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">device_del </b>(</code></td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">dev</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2620737"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
device.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2620763"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
This is the first part of the device unregistration
sequence. This removes the device from the lists we control
from here, has it removed from the other driver model
subsystems it was added to in <code class="function">device_add</code>, and removes it
from the kobject hierarchy.
</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="NOTE"><a id="id2620783"></a><h2>NOTE</h2><p>
this should be called manually _iff_ <code class="function">device_add</code> was
also called manually.
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