acpi_handle_list_free(9)

✨ NAME ✨

acpi_handle_list_free — bestie, this is the one that frees the handles table inside an ACPI handle list 💅

It's from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving "small function, very important cleanup energy."

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void acpi_handle_list_free (struct acpi_handle_list *list );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• list — the ACPI handle list you want to free, bestie. That's the whole assignment 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the vibe: acpi_handle_list_free frees the handles table in list and clears its count field. That's literally it — tiny function, very "clean up your room before you leave" energy ✨

No cap, it's just doing the free-and-clear combo on the handle list you hand it.

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

The kernel file is ./drivers/acpi/utils.c, and these are all the sibling functions hanging out in the same ACPI-utils group chat:

• acpi_handle_list_equal(9)
• acpi_handle_list_replace(9)
• acpi_device_dep(9)
• acpi_evaluate_ost(9)
• acpi_handle_path(9)
• acpi_handle_printk(9)
• __acpi_handle_debug(9)
• acpi_evaluation_failure_warn(9)
• acpi_has_method(9)
• acpi_evaluate_ej0(9)
• acpi_evaluate_lck(9)
• acpi_evaluate_reg(9)
• acpi_evaluate_dsm(9)
• acpi_check_dsm(9)
• acpi_dev_uid_to_integer(9)
• acpi_dev_found(9)
• acpi_dev_present(9)
• acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev(9)
• acpi_dev_get_first_match_dev(9)
• acpi_reduced_hardware(9)
• acpi_dev_is_video_device(9)
• acpi_match_platform_list(9)

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That's the page, bestie 🎀 mwah 💋 — it's filed under ./drivers/acpi, stamped October 2026, and it's literally the acpi_handle_list_free(9) page. Periodt. 🌈