gpio_device_find_by_label(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ gpio_device_find_by_label ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 💅 — this is the page for gpio_device_find_by_label(9), and it's honestly such a lil cutie. No cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

gpio_device_find_by_label — it's literally just a wrapper around gpio_device_find() that finds the GPIO device by its backing chip's label 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct gpio_device * gpio_device_find_by_label (const char *label );

yes that's the whole thing, she's short and she knows it 👑

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • label — the label you wanna look up 🔍 like, that's the whole argument, that's the assignment

🌈 RETURN 🌈

You get back a reference to the GPIO device, or NULL 😭 (so pls check, fr fr).

⚠️ that reference must be released with gpio_device_put — not optional, not "later maybe", release it. periodt 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file lives at ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c 🫶 — and here's the whole friend group, no one gets left out:

and that's the page, bestie!! 🦋 this lil gem comes from ./drivers/gpio, stamped October 2026 — go release your references and slay 💅✨🎀

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