aperture_re...ting_devices(9)

✨ aperture_re...ting_devices(9) — the Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay bestie so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's about aperture_remove_conflicting_devices — yes the name is long, yes it's iconic, we move 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

aperture_remove_conflicting_devices — remove devices in the given range

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int aperture_remove_conflicting_devices (resource_size_t base ,
resource_size_t size , const char *name );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• base — the aperture's base address in physical memory. like, where it starts, fr fr.
• size — aperture size in bytes. the actual bigness of it 💖
• name — a descriptive name of the requesting driver. so everyone knows who's asking, iykyk.

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay so literally what this does: it removes devices that own apertures within base and size. that's the whole vibe check — anything holding an aperture inside that range gets evicted. no cap. 🔥

🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise. zero is the slay outcome, negative is the "not me 😭" outcome.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/video/aperture.c
• overview(9)
• devm_aperture_acquire_for_platform_device(9)
• __aperture_remove_legacy_vga_devices(9)
• aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(9)

go read those too, bestie, it's giving required reading 🫶

ngl this page lives in ./drivers/video and it's stamped October 2026 — so that's the source, the version, and the date all in one cute little sign-off 💖 periodt.