device_link_remove(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to device_link_remove(9) from the Kernel API Manual 🫶. This is the page for the function whose NAME card literally says: device_link_remove — Delete a stateless link between two devices. slay 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

The signature is exactly this, no edits, no vibes-based renaming:

void device_link_remove (void *consumer , struct device *supplier );

It’s void, so there’s no return value to catch — it’s giving “just make the call” energy ✨.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• consumer — Consumer end of the link. 💖
• supplier — Supplier end of the link. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The caller must ensure proper synchronization of this function with runtime PM. That’s the whole vibe check, and it is not optional 😭.

⚠️ Bestie, do not skip the sync: the caller must ensure proper synchronization of this function with runtime PM. The function is void, but the synchronization responsibility is very much main-character energy 💀.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Kernel file: ./drivers/base/core.c — and the whole friend group is:

• __fwnode_link_add(9), __fwnode_link_del(9), __fwnode_link_cycle(9)
• fwnode_links_purge_suppliers(9), fwnode_links_purge_consumers(9), fwnode_links_purge(9), __fwnode_links_move_consumers(9)
• __fw_devlink_pickup_dangling_consumers(9), fw_devlink_refresh_fwnode(9)
• device_is_dependent(9), device_pm_move_to_tail(9)
• device_link_wait_removal(9), device_link_add(9), device_link_del(9)
• device_links_check_suppliers(9), __device_links_queue_sync_state(9)
• device_links_flush_sync_list(9), device_links_force_bind(9)
• device_links_driver_bound(9), __device_links_no_driver(9)
• device_links_no_driver(9), device_links_driver_cleanup(9)
• device_links_busy(9), device_links_unbind_consumers(9)
• device_links_purge(9), wait_for_init_devices_probe(9)
• fwnode_is_ancestor_of(9), fwnode_get_next_parent_dev(9)
• __fw_devlink_relax_cycles(9), fw_devlink_create_devlink(9)
• __fw_devlink_link_to_consumers(9), __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers(9)
• dev_driver_string(9), device_release(9), devm_device_add_group(9)
• devices_kset_move_before(9), devices_kset_move_after(9), devices_kset_move_last(9)
• device_create_file(9), device_remove_file(9), device_remove_file_self(9)
• device_create_bin_file(9), device_remove_bin_file(9), device_initialize(9)
• kobject_has_children(9), dev_set_name(9), device_add(9)
• device_register(9), get_device(9), put_device(9), device_del(9)
• device_unregister(9), device_get_devnode(9), device_for_each_child(9)
• device_for_each_child_reverse(9), device_for_each_child_reverse_from(9)
• device_find_child(9), device_offline(9), device_online(9)
• __root_device_register(9), root_device_unregister(9), device_create(9)
• device_create_with_groups(9), device_destroy(9), device_rename(9)
• device_move(9), device_change_owner(9), device_shutdown(9)
• dev_err_probe(9), dev_warn_probe(9), set_primary_fwnode(9)
• set_secondary_fwnode(9), device_remove_of_node(9)
• device_add_of_node(9), device_set_of_node_from_dev(9)
• get_dev_from_fwnode(9)

Signing off from source/version ./drivers/base, dated October 2026, page device_link_remove(9) — bye bestie, go sync that runtime PM 🫶💖