framebuffer_release(9)

✨ framebuffer_release — NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for framebuffer_release(9) 💖 this one's short and sweet, but it matters, fr fr.

framebuffer_release — marks the structure available for freeing 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void framebuffer_release (struct fb_info *info );

that's the whole signature, no cap. void in, nothing out — she just does her thing and dips 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• info — the frame buffer info structure 🫶 that's the struct fb_info * from the synopsis, the main character of this whole page ngl

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the vibe: framebuffer_release drops the reference count of the device that's embedded in the framebuffer info structure. ⭐

that's it. that's the whole job. she's not out here freeing anything herself — she just marks the structure as available for freeing, and lets the reference counting do its thing. lowkey iconic how simple it is 🧚

ngl, "marks available for freeing" ≠ "actually frees it", bestie — don't get it twisted 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• the kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c 📁
• framebuffer_alloc(9) — the other half of the duo, go read her too 👑

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💖 and that's the page!! 💖 this lil slice of the kernel API manual comes to you straight from ./drivers/video/fbdev/core, dated October 2026, and yeah — framebuffer_release(9) is the name, don't wear it out 💅✨🎀