device_add_disk(9)

🫶 device_add_disk(9) — Kernel API Manual 🫶

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for device_add_disk(9) — it's giving kernel-registration realness, and we're gonna read it together, no cap ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

device_add_disk — add disk information to kernel list

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int device_add_disk (struct device *parent , struct gendisk *disk ,
       const struct attribute_group **groups );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• parent — parent device for the disk 💖
• disk — per-device partitioning information 💽
• groups — Additional per-device sysfs groups 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This function registers the partitioning information in disk with the kernel. that's the whole vibe, periodt 💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./block/genhd.c
• bdev_count_inflight(9)
• __register_blkdev(9)
• add_disk_fwnode(9)
• blk_mark_disk_dead(9)
• del_gendisk(9)
• invalidate_disk(9)
• disk_release(9)
• put_disk(9)
• set_disk_ro(9)

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and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this cutie came from ./block, dated October 2026, and it's literally the device_add_disk(9) page — mwah 💋✨