device_driver_detach(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this is device_driver_detach(9), and it’s literally here to detach a driver from a specific device. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void device_driver_detach (struct device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — device to detach driver from. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Detach driver from device. 🛠️ It will acquire both the dev lock and the dev->parent lock if needed.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The Kernel file ./drivers/base/dd.c is the source file, and these are the SEE ALSO besties:

• driver_deferred_probe_trigger(9)
• device_block_probing(9)
• device_unblock_probing(9)
• device_set_deferred_probe_reason(9)
• driver_deferred_probe_check_state(9)
• deferred_probe_initcall(9)
• device_is_bound(9)
• device_bind_driver(9)
• driver_probe_done(9)
• wait_for_device_probe(9)
• driver_probe_device(9)
• device_attach(9)
• device_driver_attach(9)
• driver_attach(9)
• device_release_driver(9)
• driver_detach(9)

💌 cute sign-off: source/version is ./drivers/base, date is October 2026, and the page is device_driver_detach(9). bye bestie, go detach responsibly 💅✨