cik_fini(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 cik_fini(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the main character is cik_fini. it's a kernel function, it's got one (1) job, and honestly? it does it. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

cik_fini — the asic specific driver and hw fini, aka the little goodbye ritual 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void cik_fini (struct radeon_device *rdev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no sneaky extra params, no return value, she just goes 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • rdev — a radeon_device pointer, i.e. your whole entire GPU device struct. hand it over and let her do her thing 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: cik_fini tears down the asic specific driver variables and then programs the hw to an idle state (CIK). that's the whole arc — variables: packed up, hardware: chill mode, no notes 🔥

and when does she get called? at driver unload. which is literally the last thing that happens, so this is her closing-number energy 👑

ngl this one's short but it's load-bearing — it's the teardown counterpart to cik_init, and yes, both of them are down there in SEE ALSO, iykyk 😌

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group, fr fr — everyone who shares the ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon group chat 💜

the file itself lives in:

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c

and now the full cast, no cap, nobody left out:

and that's the page, bestie 🌈 one tiny teardown function, one huge friend group. she ate and left no crumbs 💀

🎀 real ones know this shipped out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon, dated October 2026, and it's filed under cik_fini(9) — go drink some water, mwah 🫶💖
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