drm_format_...tate_release(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 drm_format_conv_state_release(9) 💅

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual bestie, and today's main character is drm_format_conv_state_release — the little cleanup queen who frees your format-conversion storage. she's giving end of an era energy and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

drm_format_conv_state_release — releases a format-conversion storage 🧹🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void drm_format_conv_state_release (struct drm_format_conv_state *state
);

no cap, that's the whole signature. she takes one pointer and she's out 💨

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • state — the format-conversion state. yes queen, this is the thing you're releasing. hand her over 💜

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what she actually does: she releases the memory range referenced by the format-conversion state. that's it, that's the vibe check ✅

but listen — after this call, all pointers to the memory are invalid. like, literally invalid. do not touch them, do not look at them, do not pass go 🙈💀 they're ghosts now.

🚨 real talk bestie: once she's done, those pointers are cooked. no take-backs.

and here's the tip the manpage is handing you: prefer drm_format_conv_state_init for cleaning up and unloading a driver. so like, if you're tearing down, that's the go-to — this one's more of a niche little release moment. iykyk 🌸

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole extended friend group, because of course 🫶

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 sign-off time: this one lives over in ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, and the footer's whole vibe is just drm_format_...tate_release(9) — the abbreviated queen herself 👑✨ go free your memory bestie, slay 🎀🦋

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