ata_tdev_free(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the ata_tdev_free(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this one is literally about one thing: free an ATA transport device.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ata_tdev_free (struct ata_device *dev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the struct ata_device that owns the transport device you wanna free 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Free the ATA transport device for the specified ATA device. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌸 NOTE 🌸

okay this is important, no cap: this function must only be called for an ATA transport device that has not yet successfully been added using ata_tdev_add. do not come for me if you ignore this 🫶💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-transport.c — and also peep these iconique friends:

• ata_is_port(9)
• ata_tport_delete(9)
• ata_port_classify(9)
• ata_is_ata_dev(9)
• ata_tdev_delete(9)
• ata_tdev_add(9)
• ata_is_link(9)
• ata_tlink_delete(9)
• ata_tlink_add(9)

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚💜 — source/version: ./drivers/ata, dated October 2026 ✨ mwah 💋