counter_sysfs_add(9)

💫 counter_sysfs_add(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for counter_sysfs_add — she's a little function with a big job and honestly? she ate. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

counter_sysfs_add — adds Counter sysfs attributes to the device structure. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int counter_sysfs_add (struct counter_device *const counter );

like, she takes exactly one thing and she returns an int. no cap. ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• counter — pointer to the Counter device structure 🫶 literally just a pointer to the counter device struct, that's the whole thing.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's what's actually happening, bestie: Counter sysfs attributes get created and added to the respective device structure, so they're ready for later registration to the system. 👑

resource-managed memory allocation is performed by this function — yes, she allocates, she's doing the most 💅 — and that memory should be freed when no longer needed.

how do you free it? two iconic options:

• automatically, by a device_unregister call 🌈
• or manually, by a devres_release_all call 🧚

don't just leave that memory hanging around, okay? she's resource-managed, not resource-ignored. ⭐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c
• struct counter_attribute(9)
• struct counter_attribute_group(9)

iykyk — go read those next, they're lowkey essential. 📚

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and that's the page, bestie!! source lives in ./drivers/counter, dated October 2026, and this has been your girl signing off — stay slaying, stay memory-safe 💜🦋✨