hid_destroy_device(9)

🎀 hid_destroy_device(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for hid_destroy_device(9) — yes, the manual name is folded right in here so we're not doing a whole header rerun. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

hid_destroy_device — free previously allocated device. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void hid_destroy_device (struct hid_device *hdev );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• hdev — the hid device. 🎀

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

If you allocate hid_device through hid_allocate_device, then freeing is this function's whole moment — you should ever free by this function, bestie. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/hid/hid-core.c plus the whole squad:

• hid_parse_report(9)
• hid_validate_values(9)
• hid_open_report(9)
• hid_match_report(9)
• hid_match_usage(9)
• hid_input_report(9)
• hid_safe_input_report(9)
• hid_hw_start(9)
• hid_hw_stop(9)
• hid_hw_open(9)
• hid_hw_close(9)
• hid_hw_request(9)
• hid_hw_raw_request(9)
• hid_hw_output_report(9)
• new_id_store(9)
• hid_compare_device_paths(9)
• hid_allocate_device(9)

mwah 💋 this page lives in ./drivers/hid, stamped October 2026, and it's all about hid_destroy_device(9) — bye bestie! 🫶