hsi_free_msg(9)

🌸 hsi_free_msg(9) 🌸

okay bestie, you're reading the hsi_free_msg(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ it's giving kernel-core realness, and we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

hsi_free_msg — Free an HSI message 💖

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

void hsi_free_msg (struct hsi_msg *msg );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• msg — Pointer to the HSI message. that's the one and only argument, bestie 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: the client is responsible for freeing the buffers that the scatterlists point at. yes, the client is the one doing that freeing — no cap, that's the rule 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole HSI friend group, periodt:

• Kernel file ./drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c
• hsi_port_unregister_clients(9)
• hsi_unregister_controller(9)
• hsi_register_controller(9)
• hsi_register_client_driver(9)
• hsi_put_controller(9)
• hsi_alloc_controller(9)
• hsi_alloc_msg(9)
• hsi_async(9)
• hsi_claim_port(9)
• hsi_release_port(9)
• hsi_register_port_event(9)
• hsi_unregister_port_event(9)
• hsi_event(9)
• hsi_get_channel_id_by_name(9)

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cute little sign-off: source/version is ./drivers/hsi, dated October 2026, and this page is hsi_free_msg(9) — byeee, slay responsibly 🎀💋