devres_remove(9)

💅 devres_remove 💅

🌈 from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — yes, that manual 💖

okay so we're doing kernel resource management today, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. this is the page for devres_remove(9), and we're gonna get into it. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

devres_remove — Find a device resource and remove it

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * devres_remove (struct device *dev , dr_release_t release , dr_match_t match , void *match_data );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — Device to find resource from
• release — Look for resources associated with this release function
• match — Match function (optional)
• match_data — Data for the match function

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, here's the vibe: find the latest devres of dev associated with release and for which match returns 1. if match is NULL, it's considered to match all. if found, the resource is removed atomically and returned. slay.

🌟 RETURN 🌟

Pointer to removed devres on success, NULL if not found.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole devres/devm friend group is linked here, and yes, we're listing every single one — iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/base/devres.c
• __devres_alloc_node(9)
• devres_for_each_res(9)
• devres_free(9)
• devres_add(9)
• devres_find(9)
• devres_get(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)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one lives in the ./drivers/base source spot, dated October 2026, and its manual tag is devres_remove(9) — mwah, slay, bye 🎀✨