drm_mode_destroy(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ drm_mode_destroy(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — it's like the little corner of the docs that lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm and honestly? it's giving cleanup era. 🧹💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_mode_destroy — remove a mode

like, yeet the mode. it's gone. bye. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void drm_mode_destroy (struct drm_device *dev , struct drm_display_mode
*mode );

no return value, no drama — it's void, it just does the thing and dips. ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • dev — the DRM device 🖥️ (your main character, basically)
  • mode — the mode to remove 🗑️ (the one getting the goodbye speech)

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what actually happens here? two things, in order, no skips:

  1. it releases the mode's unique ID — gotta free up that identifier so nobody's out here thinking the mode still exists
  2. then it frees the mode structure itself using kfree 🫶

that's it. that's the whole function. it's short but it ate. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file this lives in, for when you want the receipts:

  • ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c

and the whole friend group 💖 (yes, all of them, no we are not skipping anyone):

and that's the page!! 🫶 this dropped October 2026, brought to you from ./drivers/gpu/drm — mwah, slay, see u in the source tree bestie 💋🎀

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