comedi_pcmcia_disable(9)

💅 comedi_pcmcia_disable — like, the PCMCIA hangup button

Okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual for comedi_pcmcia_disable(9) — yes that (9) is giving "I live in section 9, I'm a kernel function, respect it" 💅 This one's short and sweet, so let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

comedi_pcmcia_disable — shut the PCMCIA device down and release the regions. That's it, that's the whole vibe. Cleanup era 🧹✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void comedi_pcmcia_disable (struct comedi_device *dev );

Not me returning void — no return value, no exit status, no "did it work" report back. It just does the thing.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the COMEDI device. Your main character struct 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so here's the tea 🍓 Assuming dev->hw_dev is non-NULL, we're assuming it points to a struct device embedded in a struct pcmcia_device. Like, a struct inside a struct, nesting dolls but make it kernel 🪆

Then it calls pcmcia_disable_device to disable and clean up the PCMCIA device. One job, does it well, periodt 💅

⚠️ Lowkey important: the whole thing hinges on dev->hw_dev being non-NULL. That's the assumption, that's the entry condition, that's the vibe check. Don't skip it 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.c
• comedi_to_pcmcia_dev(9)
• comedi_pcmcia_enable(9)
• comedi_pcmcia_auto_config(9)
• comedi_pcmcia_auto_unconfig(9)
• comedi_pcmcia_driver_register(9)
• comedi_pcmcia_driver_unregister(9)

The whole PCMCIA squad, fr fr — go read the enable one next if you wanna see the other side of this relationship 🔁

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Okay that's the whole page, you ate it up 💖 This icon came from ./drivers/comedi, dated October 2026 — go touch some grass (or a PCMCIA slot) and slay the rest of your kernel reading, bestie 🌈🌷