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/**
* get_device - increment reference count for device.
* @dev: device.
*
* This simply forwards the call to kobject_get(), though
* we do take care to provide for the case that we get a NULL
* pointer passed in.
*/
struct device *get_device(struct device *dev)
{
return dev ? kobj_to_dev(kobject_get(&dev->kobj)) : NULL;
} EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_device);
