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devtoname

converts character device into a string indicating the device name

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/conf.h>

const char *
devtoname(struct cdev *dev);

The () function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it. The name is whatever was set to it in ().

The devtoname() interface first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0