devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc(9)

💖 devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes we're reading kernel docs together, this is our bonding activity now, no takebacks 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc — it's the resource-managed version of iio_hw_consumer_alloc(), and yes that mouthful of a name is literally the whole vibe 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct iio_hw_consumer * devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc (struct device *dev
);

like look at her go, so iconic, so struct iio_hw_consumer * 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — pointer to the consumer device. that's the one, that's the whole argument, she's lowkey easy 💜

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So this is the managed iio_hw_consumer_alloc, bestie. The iio_hw_consumer you get from this function is automatically freed on driver detach — like devm said "don't worry about it, I gotchu" and honestly? main character energy 👑

And what does she return, you ask 👀 — a pointer to the allocated iio_hw_consumer on success, and NULL on failure. fr fr, that's it. no cap. ✨

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

okay so like, the kernel file is ./drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c and she's got a whole friend group, go say hi to all of them 💖

• struct iio_hw_consumer(9)
• iio_hw_consumer_alloc(9)
• iio_hw_consumer_free(9)
• iio_hw_consumer_enable(9)
• iio_hw_consumer_disable(9)

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 sign-off time: this lil gem comes from ./drivers/iio/buffer, dated October 2026, and it's titled devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc(9) because obviously 💅 go forth and allocate responsibly, bestie 🌈🍓