ata_tdev_delete(9)

💅 ata_tdev_delete(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to the ata_tdev_delete page ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's a short one, so grab your lil strawberry drink 🍓 and let's go.

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🎀 NAME

ata_tdev_delete — remove an ATA transport device

like, that's the whole vibe. it deletes. it's an ATA transport device. slay.

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✨ SYNOPSIS

void ata_tdev_delete (struct ata_device *ata_dev );

that's it, that's the whole function signature 💖 returns void, so no exit-status drama here, no return value to check, nothing. iconic behavior honestly.

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🫶 ARGUMENTS

• ata_dev — the struct ata_device owning the transport device to delete 💅 so like, this is the ATA device that owns the transport device you're about to yeet. it's the main character here, it holds the thing you're deleting.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

Removes the ATA transport device for the specified ATA device ✨

that's the whole deal, no cap. you hand it the struct ata_device, and it goes and removes that device's ATA transport device. clean, simple, does exactly one thing. i'm obsessed 🦋

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🔥 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-transport.c
• ata_is_port(9)
• ata_tport_delete(9)
• ata_port_classify(9)
• ata_is_ata_dev(9)
• ata_tdev_free(9)
• ata_tdev_add(9)
• ata_is_link(9)
• ata_tlink_delete(9)
• ata_tlink_add(9)

like, if you're messing with transport devices, tports or tlinks, this whole little friend group is required reading, iykyk 📚✨

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ngl bestie, this page is short but every word of it matters — the arg is struct ata_device * and it's the owner, don't mix it up with the port or link functions up there 🙈

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aaand that's a wrap, bestie! 🎀 this little beauty comes to you from the ./drivers/ata corner of the kernel, dated October 2026, and yes it's still ata_tdev_delete(9) — go delete some transport devices responsibly, ily, bye 👑💜