drm_edid_free(9)

✨ drm_edid_free(9) ✨

okay so real talk, bestie — this is page 9 of the Kernel API Manual, and it's about the teeniest little function ever: drm_edid_free. it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly. let's get into it 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

drm_edid_free — free the drm_edid container. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-task icon 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void drm_edid_free (const struct drm_edid *drm_edid );

like, look at her. void return, one pointer in, no drama. main character energy fr fr 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• drm_edid — the EDID to free. yes literally just hand her the EDID and she'll take care of the freeing part. no notes ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the manpage goes unwell and lists basically every EDID-adjacent function in the kernel 😭 but we respect the hustle. it all lives in the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c — and the whole friend group is:

• drm_edid_header_is_valid(9)
• drm_edid_is_valid(9)
• drm_edid_valid(9)
• drm_do_probe_ddc_edid(9)
• drm_edid_override_connector_update(9)
• drm_edid_raw(9)
• drm_edid_alloc(9)
• drm_edid_dup(9)
• drm_probe_ddc(9)
• drm_get_edid(9)
• drm_edid_read_custom(9)
• drm_edid_read_ddc(9)
• drm_edid_read(9)
• drm_edid_get_product_id(9)
• drm_edid_print_product_id(9)
• drm_edid_get_panel_id(9)
• drm_edid_read_base_block(9)
• drm_get_edid_switcheroo(9)
• drm_edid_read_switcheroo(9)
• drm_edid_duplicate(9)
• edid_get_quirks(9)
• drm_match_cea_mode(9)
• drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic(9)
• drm_edid_match(9)
• drm_edid_get_monitor_name(9)
• drm_edid_to_sad(9)
• drm_edid_to_speaker_allocation(9)
• drm_av_sync_delay(9)
• drm_detect_hdmi_monitor(9)
• drm_detect_monitor_audio(9)
• drm_default_rgb_quant_range(9)
• drm_edid_connector_update(9)
• drm_edid_connector_add_modes(9)
• drm_connector_update_edid_property(9)
• drm_add_edid_modes(9)
• drm_add_modes_noedid(9)
• drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_from_display_mode(9)
• drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_quant_range(9)
• drm_hdmi_vendor_infoframe_from_display_mode(9)
• drm_edid_is_digital(9)

that's 40 besties. forty. she said "you're coming to my party and that's final" 🫶

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ngl if you're reading this page you probably just need to free something. go free it. she ate and left no crumbs 💀✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie! it's from the source tree path ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, and no cap she really is drm_edid_free(9). mwah 💜🧚🍓