enclosure_register(9)

💅 enclosure_register(9) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ today's main character is enclosure_register, and honestly? she's giving "glow-up for your device" energy. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

enclosure_register — register device as an enclosure

like, you're telling the kernel "hey, this thing right here? she does enclosure things now" 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct enclosure_device * enclosure_register (struct device *dev , const
char *name , int components , struct enclosure_component_callbacks *cb );

yep, that's the whole signature, no cap. struct enclosure_device * in, struct enclosure_device * out, and four things go in the parentheses 🔥

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — the device containing the enclosure. your star of the show 💖
• name — the chosen device name. you literally pick it, it's your moment 👑
• components — number of components in the enclosure. count 'em, bestie 🔢
• cb — platform call-backs. the behind-the-scenes besties doing the actual work 🧚

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this here sets up the device for being an enclosure ✨ that's the whole vibe.

and listen — dev does not have to be a dedicated enclosure device. it's not a "must be this type to ride" situation 🙈

it may be some other type of device that additionally responds to enclosure services. so like, a device with main character energy and a side hustle 💅 periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/misc/enclosure.c — the source, the mothership 🏠
• enclosure_find(9)
• enclosure_for_each_device(9)
• enclosure_unregister(9)
• enclosure_component_alloc(9)
• enclosure_component_register(9)
• enclosure_add_device(9)
• enclosure_remove_device(9)

the whole friend group, fr fr. go say hi 🫶✨

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 sign-off time: this little number lives over in ./drivers/misc, dated October 2026 — iconic of it, honestly. iykyk 💜🌟