device_uncache_fw_images(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to device_uncache_fw_images(9) from the Kernel API Manual 🌸 this is the page for the function that uncaches devices' firmware.

device_uncache_fw_images — uncache devices' firmware, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is literally this and nothing else:

void device_uncache_fw_images (void );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. zero, zilch, nada 🫶 nothing to pass in, periodt.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This function uncaches all the firmwares that have been cached successfully by device_uncache_fw_images earlier. That's the whole description, bestie — a full uncache of those successfully cached firmwares 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The kernel file is ./drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c, and here's the whole friend group:

• request_firmware(9)
• firmware_request_nowarn(9)
• request_firmware_direct(9)
• firmware_request_platform(9)
• firmware_request_cache(9)
• request_firmware_into_buf(9)
• request_partial_firmware_into_buf(9)
• release_firmware(9)
• request_firmware_nowait(9)
• firmware_request_nowait_nowarn(9)
• request_firmware_nowait_cancel(9)
• cache_firmware(9)
• uncache_firmware(9)
• device_cache_fw_images(9)
• device_uncache_fw_images_delay(9)

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mwah 💋 — sourced from ./drivers/base/firmware_loader, dated October 2026, and starring device_uncache_fw_images(9). bye bestie 🫶