device_uncac...images_delay(9)

💅 device_uncac...images_delay(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, where we talk about device_uncache_fw_images_delay and honestly? it's giving "delayed gratification but make it firmware" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

device_uncache_fw_images_delay — uncache devices firmwares 💖

(no that's not a typo, that's literally what it does, and yes the grammar is a whole vibe, we don't fix it, we respect it 👑)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void device_uncache_fw_images_delay (unsigned long delay );

like… that's the whole signature. void, so it doesn't hand you anything back. it just does the thing and dips 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• delay — number of milliseconds to delay uncache device firmwares 🕐 so you literally tell it "hey, wait this many ms before you go uncaching everything", and it's an unsigned long, so pick your numbers responsibly bestie 🫶

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

uncache all devices's firmwares which has been cached successfully by device_cache_fw_images after delay milliseconds.

that's it. that's the whole personality. it's the cleanup crew 🧹 that shows up fashionably late — exactly delay milliseconds late, no cap — and only touches the firmwares that device_cache_fw_images actually managed to cache successfully. if the caching didn't succeed? not its problem, it's not touching that 🙈

so fr fr: cache happened first (that's device_cache_fw_images's moment), then this function rolls in after the delay and un-does it. main character energy on both sides honestly 🌈

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

Kernel file ./drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c — the sacred text itself 📜 and also the whole firmware-request friend group, all of them, in order:

• 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(9)

iykyk 🔥 that's the entire squad and you should probably go read all of them, but like, in a cozy way 🍓

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aaaand that's the page! this little gem lives in ./drivers/base/firmware_loader, dated October 2026, and it's page device_uncac...images_delay(9) of the Kernel API Manual — yes the title is abbreviated with ... and no we will not be elaborating 💜 bye bestie, go uncache something (after the delay, obviously) 💅✨🎀