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-rw-r--r--include/linux/iio/iio.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
index 3a4f6a3ab80d..3238fa3374f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h
+++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
@@ -438,6 +438,17 @@ static inline struct iio_dev *dev_to_iio_dev(struct device *dev)
return container_of(dev, struct iio_dev, dev);
}
+/**
+ * iio_device_get() - increment reference count for the device
+ * @indio_dev: IIO device structure
+ *
+ * Returns: The passed IIO device
+ **/
+static inline struct iio_dev *iio_device_get(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
+{
+ return indio_dev ? dev_to_iio_dev(get_device(&indio_dev->dev)) : NULL;
+}
+
/* Can we make this smaller? */
#define IIO_ALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
/**