extcon_alloc_muex(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ extcon_alloc_muex(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this little cutie is extcon_alloc_muex(9) and no I did not typo that, that's literally its name, we respect it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

extcon_alloc_muex — alloc the mutual exclusive for extcon device

like... it goes and gets the mutual-exclusive thing sorted for your extcon device. that's the whole gig. slay 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int extcon_alloc_muex (struct extcon_dev *edev );

that's it. that's the vibe. one argument, one int coming back at you ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • edev — extcon device 🧚 like, the actual extcon device you're doing all this for. that's it, that's the whole list, iconic behaviour honestly 👑

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Returns 0 if success or error number if fail.

fr fr that's the entire description 😭 if it works you get 0, if it doesn't you get an error number back. no in-between, no drama, just numbers. periodt 💀✨

ngl bestie, this one is a short read — but that's a gift, not a problem. take the 0, run, go live your life 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the part where the page goes full main-character and name-drops the entire extcon friend group 🎉 first up, the kernel file it all lives in:

Kernel file ./drivers/extcon/extcon.c

and then, in the order the page gives them (because we do not rearrange the squad 🫶):

lowkey the whole extended universe is in here, go read them if you're obsessed like me 💜

aaaand that's the page!! mwah 💋 this came to you from ./drivers/extcon, dated October 2026, under the Kernel API Manual umbrella — signed, sealed, delivered, and read by the bestie-est bestie in the group chat 🌸💖🎀

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