gpio_keys_disable_button(9)

✨ gpio_keys_disable_button ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this is the page for gpio_keys_disable_button, and yes it does exactly what it says on the tin: it disables a given GPIO button. no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

gpio_keys_disable_button — disables given GPIO button 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void gpio_keys_disable_button (struct gpio_button_data *bdata );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• bdata — button data for the button to be disabled. that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically this disables the button pointed to by bdata 😌 and the way it does that is by masking the IRQ line. iconic, honestly.

after this function is called, the button won't generate input events anymore. periodt. ✨

⚠️ note that one can only disable buttons that don't share IRQs. that's a real caveat, bestie — don't skip it 🙈

also, make sure that bdata->disable_lock is locked when entering this function, to avoid races when concurrent threads are disabling buttons at the same time. like, literally lock it before you come in here 🔒✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
• get_n_events_by_type(9)
• get_bm_events_by_type(9)
• gpio_keys_enable_button(9)
• gpio_keys_attr_show_helper(9)
• gpio_keys_attr_store_helper(9)

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mwah 💋 this lil page comes from the source/version at ./drivers/input/keyboard, dated October 2026 — slay, go read the kernel source, bestie 🌈👑