device_links_purge(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 💅 this one's a tiny little icon and honestly it ate — it's device_links_purge(9) and it does exactly one thing but it does it flawlessly.

🌸 NAME 🌸

device_links_purge — delete existing links to other devices ✨

Like, all the links. Gone. Poof. She's a clean slate kind of girl 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void device_links_purge (struct device *dev );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no return value, no drama, no notes 🔥

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • dev — the target device 🫶 aka the main character whose links are about to get the unfollow treatment.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

soooo many siblings, we love a big family 🧚 they all live over in the kernel file ./drivers/base/core.c — go say hi:

💀 reminder bestie: this page has no options, no return values, no environment variables, no exit statuses and no warnings listed — so don't go looking for them, there's literally nothing else here. she's short and she knows it 💅

and that's the whole page, no cap 🫶 brought to you by the source tree at ./drivers/base, dated October 2026, from the Kernel API Manual — the one and only device_links_purge(9) ⭐ periodt 💜

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