class_compat_create_link(9)

✨ class_compat_create_link(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's lowkey iconic — it's all about making a compatibility class device link to a bus device. fr fr, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💖 NAME 💖

class_compat_create_link — create a compatibility class device link to a bus device

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int class_compat_create_link (struct class_compat *cls , struct device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cls — the compatibility class 💅
• dev — the target bus device ✨

bestie that's literally it, two arguments, no cap, go off 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/base/class.c plus the whole friend group:

• class_to_subsys(9)
• class_create(9)
• class_destroy(9)
• class_dev_iter_init(9)
• class_dev_iter_next(9)
• class_dev_iter_exit(9)
• class_for_each_device(9)
• class_find_device(9)
• class_compat_register(9)
• class_compat_unregister(9)
• class_compat_remove_link(9)
• class_is_registered(9)

and that's the whole page, main character energy from start to finish 🌈💜

sign-off time: this cutie comes to you from ./drivers/base, dated October 2026, and it's class_compat_create_link(9) — periodt, iykyk 💅🎀