e1000_remove(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_remove — Device Removal Routine 🫶

okay so bestie, this one is part of the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-api girlies), and honestly it's giving "the driver gets a breakup text from the PCI subsystem" energy ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void e1000_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

that's the whole signature, no cap — returns void, takes one pointer, and handles its business 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pdev — the PCI device information struct. like, the whole dossier on the device in question 📁✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so e1000_remove is called by the PCI subsystem to alert the driver that it should release a PCI device 💌 like an official heads-up text, but for hardware.

and why would this happen? two iconic reasons, fr fr:

  • a Hot-Plug event happened 🔥 (yes, hardware can just show up or dip like that)
  • the driver is going to be removed from memory 💀

either way, this function is the "okay bestie, time to let go" moment — the device gets released, periodt. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file itself lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c — go read her, she ate 🌈

and now, the full squad of related functions (every single one, we do not leave anyone out 💜):

like, that's the whole friend group and they're all lowkey obsessed with each other 🧚💖

and that's the page, bestie!! source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... and it's dated October 2026, on e1000_remove(9) — slay, go free that PCI device 💅✨🌸

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