devres_free(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is devres_free(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — and it does exactly what it says on the label: it frees device resource data 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void devres_free (void *res );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• res — pointer to the devres data to free 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It frees devres that was created with devres_alloc. That's the whole vibe. Cleanup era 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

• __devres_alloc_node(9)
• devres_for_each_res(9)
• devres_add(9)
• devres_find(9)
• devres_get(9)
• devres_remove(9)
• devres_destroy(9)
• devres_release(9)
• devres_release_all(9)
• devres_open_group(9)
• devres_close_group(9)
• devres_remove_group(9)
• devres_release_group(9)
• __devm_add_action(9)
• devm_remove_action_nowarn(9)
• devm_release_action(9)
• devm_kmalloc(9)
• devm_krealloc(9)
• devm_kstrdup(9)
• devm_kstrdup_const(9)
• devm_kvasprintf(9)
• devm_kasprintf(9)
• devm_kfree(9)
• devm_kmemdup(9)
• devm_kmemdup_const(9)
• devm_get_free_pages(9)
• devm_free_pages(9)
• __devm_alloc_percpu(9)

xoxo, your local kernel bestie 💅 — source ./drivers/base, dated October 2026. periodt. 🍓