gio_release_dev(9)

💅 gio_release_dev(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, we're deep in the Kernel API Manual today and the star of the show is gio_release_dev(9) — no cap, this one's short but she's important 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

gio_release_dev — frees an gio device structure once literally every single user of it is finished with it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void gio_release_dev (struct device *dev );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — the device that's been disconnected 👋 (yes, disconnected, that's the whole vibe here)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the tea ☕: this function will be called only by the device core — like, not you, not your friend, only the device core — and only when all users of this gio device are done. all of them. every last one. periodt 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
• gio_match_device(9) — her sister function, go say hi 🧚

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fr fr bestie, if you're calling this yourself, put the keyboard down 🙈 — the device core handles it when everyone's finished. iykyk.

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and that's the whole page!! 💜 big slay to ./arch/mips/sgi-ip22 for bringing us this one back in October 2026 — iconic source, iconic date, we stan an archival moment 👑⭐🍓