acpi_dock_add(9)

✨ NAME ✨

acpi_dock_add — Add a new dock station

okay so this page is acpi_dock_add(9), and it's living in the Kernel API Manual — literally the guide for adding a new dock station 🫶.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void acpi_dock_add (struct acpi_device *adev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adev — Dock station ACPI device object. That's the ACPI device object for the dock station, bestie 💅.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The description is short and iconic: it gets a new dock station device allocated and initialized. The exact wording is literally:

allocated and initialize a new dock station device.

No cap, that's the whole description ✨.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie, the SEE ALSO section points at the kernel file ./drivers/acpi/dock.c plus these related pages:

• add_dock_dependent_device(9)
• find_dock_dependent_device(9)
• is_dock_device(9)
• dock_present(9)
• hot_remove_dock_devices(9)
• hotplug_dock_devices(9)
• handle_dock(9)
• dock_in_progress(9)
• handle_eject_request(9)
• dock_notify(9)

Also, the path ./drivers/acpi appears in the SEE ALSO area too 🌈.

mwah 💖 that's the whole page! Footer cuteness: source/version ./drivers/acpi, date October 2026, manual title acpi_dock_add(9). periodt 👑