IEEE1284_RELEASE(3)

✨ IEEE1284_RELEASE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Functions section, manual page 3, and this one is genuinely a lil baby — one function, one job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ieee1284_release — release a port 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ieee1284.h>

void ieee1284_release(struct parport *port);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, this function is the undo button for ieee1284_claim(3). it releases the port so other drivers can use it. it's giving "okay I'm done, the aux cord is free, whoever wants it can have it" 🫶

good practice alert: release the port whenever it's convenient. like, genuinely, whenever. don't be that person hogging it 🙈

and if it's never convenient to release it — no judgement, we've all been there — then you should specify the F1284_EXCL flag at initialization instead. that's the move, bestie. periodt. ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

• Author. 💜

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2001-2003 Tim Waugh

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this icon of a manpage came from the Functions section, version IEEE1284_RELEASE(3), dated 09/18/2007 — slay, ate, no crumbs left 🌈✨🦋