clkdev_create(9)

💅 clkdev_create(9)

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a short one but it slaps. Let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME

clkdev_create — allocate and add a clkdev lookup structure

like, it literally makes one and puts it out into the world. main character behaviour fr fr 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS

struct clk_lookup * clkdev_create (struct clk *clk , const char *con_id
, const char *dev_fmt , ... );

look at that signature. iconic. gives back a struct clk_lookup *, and honestly? obsessed 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS

• clk — the struct clk you're associating with all the clk_lookups 💫 like it's the popular one and every lookup wants to be in its group chat
• con_id — the connection ID string on the device 🔗 yes, the string, keep it exactly as it is
• dev_fmt — a format string describing the device name ✍️ so it's doing that printf-style thing
• ... — variable arguments 👀 the little extra bits that go with dev_fmt

no cap, that's the whole cast of characters 🌈

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🧚 DESCRIPTION

Returns a clk_lookup structure — and here's the good part — which can be later unregistered and freed 🔥

so like, you don't just create it and ghost it forever, you can actually clean up after yourself later. we love a structure with an exit strategy 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./drivers/clk/clkdev.c
• clkdev_hw_create(9)
• clk_register_clkdev(9)
• clk_hw_register_clkdev(9)
• devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev(9)

the whole friend group, literally. go read them too, iykyk 📚💜

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ngl this one's a quick read, but every flag and every sibling function matters. don't skip the SEE ALSO, bestie, that's where the lore lives 😭

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and that's the vibe check 🦋 this page comes from ./drivers/clk and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, future-coded manual page, slay ⭐💅 bye bestie!! 🍓