comedi_usb_auto_unconfig(9)

💅 comedi_usb_auto_unconfig

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's a little kernel helper called comedi_usb_auto_unconfig, and honestly it's giving cleanup crew energy 🧹💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

comedi_usb_auto_unconfig — unconfigure/disconnect a USB COMEDI device 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void comedi_usb_auto_unconfig (struct usb_interface *intf );

literally just one lil function, no cap 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• intf — the USB interface. that's it, that's the whole argument list 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so like, the vibe here is: this gets typically called from the usb_driver (*disconnect) function 🔌✨ — you know, when the device is peacing out.

What it does: it auto-unconfigures a COMEDI device that's attached to this USB interface, and it uses a pointer to the struct device embedded in *intf as the hardware device. cute, right? 🎀

and while the COMEDI device is being unconfigured, the COMEDI driver's "detach" handler gets called. so it's not just a shrug-and-leave, there's an actual handler doing its main character moment 💅🔥

⚠️ okay important note bestie: the COMEDI device may have already been unconfigured using the COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl 😭 in that case, this attempt to unconfigure it again should be ignored. don't double-unconfigure, it's not the vibe 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/comedi/comedi_usb.c 📁
• comedi_to_usb_interface(9)
• comedi_to_usb_dev(9)
• comedi_usb_auto_config(9)
• comedi_usb_driver_register(9)
• comedi_usb_driver_unregister(9)

go read the whole friend group, iykyk 🦋💜

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k bye ily, this page lives in ./drivers/comedi, it's the October 2026 edition of the Kernel API Manual, and yes the doc girlies ate 💅🎀⭐