fwnode_links_purge(9)

💅 fwnode_links_purge ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this one is short and sweet and honestly iconic for it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

fwnode_links_purge — deletes all the links connected to a fwnode_handle. all of them. every single one. no survivors, periodt. 💀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void fwnode_links_purge (struct fwnode_handle *fwnode );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one arg, returns nothing, gets straight to business. 👑

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• fwnode — the fwnode whose links need to be deleted ✂️ like, this is the one, the main character of the operation. if it's got links, they're gone.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Deletes all links connecting directly to a fwnode.

the way that this function just… clears the whole friend group 😭 no cap, direct connections only, and everything attached straight to that fwnode is out. gone. ghosted. 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie. bestie. sit down. this list is long. like, absurdly long. it's giving "i know everyone at this party" energy 💅 but fr, it's all related kernel symbol tea from the kernel file ./drivers/base/core.c:

• __fwnode_link_add(9)
• __fwnode_link_del(9)
• __fwnode_link_cycle(9)
• fwnode_links_purge_suppliers(9)
• fwnode_links_purge_consumers(9)
• __fwnode_links_move_consumers(9)
• __fw_devlink_pickup_dangling_consumers(9)
• fw_devlink_refresh_fwnode(9)
• device_is_dependent(9)
• device_pm_move_to_tail(9)
• device_link_wait_removal(9)
• device_link_add(9)
• device_link_del(9)
• device_link_remove(9)
• device_links_check_suppliers(9)
• __device_links_queue_sync_state(9)
• device_links_flush_sync_list(9)
• device_links_force_bind(9)
• device_links_driver_bound(9)
• __device_links_no_driver(9)
• device_links_no_driver(9)
• device_links_driver_cleanup(9)
• device_links_busy(9)
• device_links_unbind_consumers(9)
• device_links_purge(9)
• wait_for_init_devices_probe(9)
• fwnode_is_ancestor_of(9)
• fwnode_get_next_parent_dev(9)
• __fw_devlink_relax_cycles(9)
• fw_devlink_create_devlink(9)
• __fw_devlink_link_to_consumers(9)
• __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers(9)
• dev_driver_string(9)
• device_release(9)
• devm_device_add_group(9)
• devices_kset_move_before(9)
• devices_kset_move_after(9)
• devices_kset_move_last(9)
• device_create_file(9)
• device_remove_file(9)
• device_remove_file_self(9)
• device_create_bin_file(9)
• device_remove_bin_file(9)
• device_initialize(9)
• kobject_has_children(9)
• dev_set_name(9)
• device_add(9)
• device_register(9)
• get_device(9)
• put_device(9)
• device_del(9)
• device_unregister(9)
• device_get_devnode(9)
• device_for_each_child(9)
• device_for_each_child_reverse(9)
• device_for_each_child_reverse_from(9)
• device_find_child(9)
• device_offline(9)
• device_online(9)
• __root_device_register(9)
• root_device_unregister(9)
• device_create(9)
• device_create_with_groups(9)
• device_destroy(9)
• device_rename(9)
• device_move(9)
• device_change_owner(9)
• device_shutdown(9)
• dev_err_probe(9)
• dev_warn_probe(9)
• set_primary_fwnode(9)
• set_secondary_fwnode(9)
• device_remove_of_node(9)
• device_add_of_node(9)
• device_set_of_node_from_dev(9)
• get_dev_from_fwnode(9)

like. that's the whole contact list fr fr 📞 iykyk.

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