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Description

This function registers device with input core. The device must be allocated with input_allocate_device and all it's capabilities set up before registering. If function fails the device must be freed with input_free_device. Once device has been successfully registered it can be unregistered with input_unregister_device; input_free_device should not be called in this case.

Note that this function is also used to register managed input devices (ones allocated with devm_input_allocate_device). Such managed input devices need not be explicitly unregistered or freed, their tear down is controlled by the devres infrastructure. It is also worth noting that tear down of managed input devices is internally a 2-step process: registered managed input device is first unregistered, but stays in memory and can still handle input_event calls (although events will not be delivered anywhere). The freeing of managed input device will happen later, when devres stack is unwound to the point where device allocation was made.