__dev_remove_pack(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 __dev_remove_pack(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for __dev_remove_pack, and yes this is the kernel-doc corner of the group chat now 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

__dev_remove_pack — remove packet handler 🧹

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void __dev_remove_pack (struct packet_type *pt );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pt — packet type declaration. it's a struct packet_type *, and it's literally the thing you're about to yeet out of the kernel lists 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function removes a protocol handler that was previously added to the kernel protocol handlers by dev_add_pack. the packet_type you pass in gets removed from the kernel lists, and it can be freed or reused once this function returns. slay, one call and it's unregistered ✨

but — and this is the part you cannot skip, bestie 🫶 — the packet type might still be in use by receivers and must not be freed until after all the CPU's have gone through a quiescent state.

⚠️ fr fr, read that again. removed from the lists ≠ nobody's touching it. free it too early and that's a whole vibe check you do not want to fail 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the friend group 🫶 — every single one of these, no cap:

that's the whole page bestie, go touch some grass and then go check your RCU grace periods 🌱💜

sign-off time 🎀 — this one lives in ./net/core (yup, that's the source/version), dated October 2026, and it's __dev_remove_pack(9) forever, periodt 💅✨

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