dpll_device_put(9)

💅 dpll_device_put(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so you're in the kernel API manual, section 9, and today's main character is dpll_device_put 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

dpll_device_put — decrease the refcount and free memory if possible 🫶

like, she's the put to your get, bestie. you borrowed a ref, now you give it back. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void dpll_device_put (struct dpll_device *dpll , dpll_tracker *tracker
);

yep that's the whole vibe. void return, two args, she's not here to chat 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dpll — a dpll_device struct pointer 💖 like, the actual dpll device object you're dropping a ref on
• tracker — the tracking object for the acquired reference ⭐ she's the receipts, the proof you actually owned that ref, iykyk

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🔥 CONTEXT 🔥

okay so important context bestie, listen up 👑

Acquires a lock (dpll_lock) 🔒 and drops the reference for a dpll device. and if all the references are gone? she deletes the dpll device object. periodt. ✨

lowkey iconic behaviour — last one out turns off the lights 💀

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

kernel file: ./drivers/dpll/dpll_core.c 📁 (yes, that's where the magic lives)

and the whole dpll squad, all linked, all slaying:

• dpll_device_get(9)
• dpll_device_register(9)
• dpll_device_unregister(9)
• dpll_pin_get(9)
• dpll_pin_put(9)
• dpll_pin_fwnode_set(9)
• fwnode_dpll_pin_find(9)
• dpll_pin_register(9)
• dpll_pin_unregister(9)
• dpll_pin_on_pin_register(9)
• dpll_pin_on_pin_unregister(9)
• dpll_pin_ref_sync_pair_add(9)
• dpll_pin_own_dpll_ref_first(9)

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and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this one's from ./drivers/dpll, dated October 2026, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual — go forth and put your refs back where you found them 💖✨🎀