clkdev_hw_create(9)

✨ clkdev_hw_create(9) ✨

Okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, the actual kernel docs — and it's about clkdev_hw_create, which lowkey just means "make a clkdev lookup thing and add it". We're in our kernel girlie era, let's go. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

clkdev_hw_create — allocate and add a clkdev lookup structure. That's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct clk_lookup * clkdev_hw_create (struct clk_hw *hw , const char
*con_id , const char *dev_fmt , ... );

Look at her. Iconic signature. 👑

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• hw — the struct clk_hw you're associating with all the clk_lookups. Like, every single one. She's the main character here. 💖
• con_id — the connection ID string on the device. Yes bestie, it's a string, keep it cute. 🎀
• dev_fmt — a format string describing the device name. Format string, so you get to be fancy with it. ✨
• ... — variable arguments. The lil' ... doing its thing, feeding into that format string. 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So what does it do? It returns a clk_lookup structure — and here's the tea — that structure can later be unregistered and freed. So it's giving "temporary but iconic". Register it now, clean it up later, no cap. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/clk/clkdev.c — go read it, iykyk 📖
• clkdev_create(9)
• clk_register_clkdev(9)
• clk_hw_register_clkdev(9)
• devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev(9)

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ngl bestie, all the real details live in ./drivers/clk/clkdev.c — this page is just the group chat summary. 🙈

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Okay that's the whole page, love u, bye! 💜 This gem is from <pink>./drivers/clk</pink>, she's dated October 2026, and she answers to the name clkdev_hw_create(9). Slay. 💅✨🍓