add_dock_dependent_device(9)

💅 add_dock_dependent_device(9) 💅

✨ NAME ✨

add_dock_dependent_device — associate a device with the dock station.

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for add_dock_dependent_device(9), and it's literally the “put this device on the dock's dependent-device list” function. No cap, that's the whole plot. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int add_dock_dependent_device (struct dock_station *ds , struct
       acpi_device *adev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ds — the dock station, aka the dock in question. Main character energy.
• adev — the dependent ACPI device object. This is the device being associated with the dock, bestie.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Add the dependent device to the dock's dependent device list.

That's it. adev gets added to ds's dependent-device list, periodt. The way this function is so unbothered and specific? Obsessed. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these next, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./drivers/acpi/dock.c
• 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)
• acpi_dock_add(9)

mwah 💋 source/version check: this page came from ./drivers/acpi, dated October 2026, and yes bestie it's literally the add_dock_dependent_device(9) manual page. bye 🫶