.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "PCI_DEV_PUT" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME pci_dev_put \- release a use of the pci device structure .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void pci_dev_put (struct pci_dev * \fIdev\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdev\fB\fR device that's been disconnected .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Must be called when a user of a device is finished with it. When the last user of the device calls this function, the memory of the device is freed.