iio_device_r..._buffer_mode(9)

💅 iio_device_release_buffer_mode — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, and specifically to iio_device_release_buffer_mode(9) — the little cleanup baddie that closes the loop on a buffer-mode claim. she's short, she's iconic, she does exactly one (1) thing, and we love her for it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

iio_device_release_buffer_mode — releases the claim on buffer mode, periodt 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

iio_device_release_buffer_mode (indio_dev );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• indio_dev — the iio_dev that's associated with the device 🫶 like, the actual device struct, no cap

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: this function releases the claim. That's it, that's the whole job ✨

And because that claim is now gone, the device is no longer guaranteed to stay in buffer mode — ngl, that part matters, because it means the mode could change out from under you once you've let go of the claim 😭

Use it together with iio_device_try_claim_buffer_mode — they're a matched set, the two of them, iykyk 👑

also for the record, this manual page says <function>iio_device_release_buffer_mode</function> up top, but the header and footer abbreviate it as iio_device_r..._buffer_mode(9) — same girl, shorter name, that's just how the page prints her 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./include/linux/iio/iio.h, plus this whole friend group of related pages — every single one of them, no skipping 👑

• struct iio_chan_spec_ext_info(9)
• struct iio_enum(9)
• IIO_ENUM(9)
• IIO_ENUM_AVAILABLE(9)
• struct iio_mount_matrix(9)
• IIO_MOUNT_MATRIX(9)
• struct iio_event_spec(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_UNSIGNED_INT(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT(9)
• struct iio_scan_type(9)
• struct iio_chan_spec(9)
• iio_channel_has_info(9)
• iio_channel_has_available(9)
• struct iio_info(9)
• struct iio_buffer_setup_ops(9)
• struct iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_register(9)
• devm_iio_device_register(9)
• iio_device_claim_direct(9)
• iio_device_release_direct(9)
• iio_device_try_claim_buffer_mode(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_DIRECT_MODE(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_FAILED(9)
• IIO_DEV_GUARD_CURRENT_MODE(9)
• iio_device_put(9)
• dev_to_iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_get(9)
• iio_device_set_parent(9)
• iio_device_set_drvdata(9)
• iio_device_get_drvdata(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION(9)
• iio_get_debugfs_dentry(9)
• iio_device_suspend_triggering(9)
• iio_device_resume_triggering(9)
• iio_get_current_scan_type(9)
• iio_get_masklength(9)
• iio_for_each_active_channel(9)
• IIO_DEGREE_TO_RAD(9)
• IIO_RAD_TO_DEGREE(9)
• IIO_G_TO_M_S_2(9)
• IIO_M_S_2_TO_G(9)

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and that's the whole page babes 🧚 this one lives over at ./include/linux/iio, dated October 2026, and it's filed under iio_device_r..._buffer_mode(9) in the Kernel API Manual — go release that claim, you've got this 💜🌈