fwnode_links...ge_suppliers(9)

💅 fwnode_links_purge_suppliers(9) — bestie edition

okay so real talk, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual and the header up top got absolutely squished into fwnode_links...ge_suppliers(9) (the terminal did her dirty, not us), but the actual star of the show is fwnode_links_purge_suppliers 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

fwnode_links_purge_suppliers — she deletes all the supplier links of a fwnode_handle. all of them. every last one. periodt 🧹💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void fwnode_links_purge_suppliers (struct fwnode_handle *fwnode );

no return value, she just goes in and clears stuff out 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• fwnode — the fwnode whose supplier links need to be deleted. that's her. that's the whole job 💖

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Deletes all supplier links connecting directly to fwnode. like, the ones right there attached to her — direct links only, that's the vibe check. no cap 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole extended friend group, genuinely a group chat of 72 people and every one of them is @'d in this section — iykyk. the source file for all this is the Kernel file ./drivers/base/core.c.

• __fwnode_link_add(9), __fwnode_link_del(9), __fwnode_link_cycle(9)
• fwnode_links_purge_consumers(9), fwnode_links_purge(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)

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💀 tiny note bestie: this is a void function, so there's literally nothing to check on the way out. just vibes and deleted links.

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and that's the page!! 🫶 brought to you by the source path ./drivers/base and dated October 2026 — mwah, go touch some device links, ily, bye 🎀✨💜