acpi_handle_path(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to acpi_handle_path(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one is lowkey short but important: acpi_handle_path — return the object path of handle. that’s the whole vibe, no cap ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

char * acpi_handle_path (acpi_handle handle );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• handle — an ACPI device handle, aka the little device bestie you’re asking about 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here’s the part you cannot skip, bestie: the caller must free the returned buffer. it’s giving “you own this now,” and no, you can’t just ghost it 😭

warning bestie: the caller must free the returned buffer. literally do not forget. this is main character responsibility energy 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole linked squad, fr fr 🧚✨ and yes, we’re keeping every single one:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/acpi/utils.c 📁
• acpi_handle_list_equal(9)
• acpi_handle_list_replace(9)
• acpi_handle_list_free(9)
• acpi_device_dep(9)
• acpi_evaluate_ost(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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