atl2_remove(9)

✨ NAME ✨

atl2_remove — the Device Removal Routine, aka the "bestie it's time to go" function 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void atl2_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• pdev — the PCI device information struct, aka the little ID card for the device we're about to send off 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea: atl2_remove gets called by the PCI subsystem to alert the driver that it should release a PCI device. It's basically the driver's "you can let go now" moment 😭

And like, why is this happening? Two iconic reasons, no cap:

• a Hot-Plug event went down 🔥 (the device got unplugged/plugged situation), or
• the driver is literally going to be removed from memory — like, evicted, gone, ✨ deleted ✨

Either way, atl2_remove is the main character that handles the goodbye. Periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c — plus the whole friend group, fr fr:

• atl2_sw_init(9)
• atl2_set_multi(9)
• atl2_configure(9)
• atl2_setup_ring_resources(9)
• atl2_irq_enable(9)
• atl2_irq_disable(9)
• atl2_intr(9)
• atl2_free_ring_resources(9)
• atl2_open(9)
• atl2_close(9)
• atl2_change_mtu(9)
• atl2_set_mac(9)
• atl2_tx_timeout(9)
• atl2_watchdog(9)
• atl2_phy_config(9)
• atl2_link_chg_task(9)
• atl2_probe(9)
• atl2_check_options(9)

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💀 Reminder bestie: this is a removal routine. Nothing to configure here, you're just here to release the device and look cute doing it.

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Sign-off time 🎀✨ this little page lives at source ./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros... and it's stamped October 2026 — that's the atl2_remove(9) era, iykyk 💜