amba_device_alloc(9)

💖 amba_device_alloc(9) 💖

hey bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for amba_device_alloc, and yes it's giving kernel-device-allocation realness. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

amba_device_alloc — allocate an AMBA device.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct amba_device * amba_device_alloc (const char *name ,
resource_size_t base , size_t size );

💬 ARGUMENTS 💬

• name — sysfs name of the AMBA device. that's the label it goes by, periodt.
• base — base of AMBA device. literally the base.
• size — size of AMBA device. the size, bestie.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so amba_device_alloc allocates and initializes an AMBA device structure. slay. and if something goes wrong? it returns NULL on failure — no cap, that's the failure signal. 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

peep these, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/amba/bus.c — __amba_driver_register(9), amba_driver_unregister(9), amba_device_add(9), amba_device_register(9), amba_device_put(9), amba_device_unregister(9), amba_request_regions(9), amba_release_regions(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./drivers/amba, date: October 2026.