iio_device_unregister(9)

💅 iio_device_unregister — the Kernel API Manual page you didn't know you needed

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for iio_device_unregister — yes that's the whole title, yes it's a mouthful, we move 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

iio_device_unregister — unregister a device from the IIO subsystem 🎀

literally what it says on the tin: this is the function that takes a device out of the IIO subsystem's registry. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void iio_device_unregister (struct iio_dev *indio_dev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. one return type of void, one argument, zero drama 💜

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• indio_dev — Device structure representing the device. 🦋 that's the device struct, the struct iio_dev * itself, the main character of this whole page. it's the one representing the device you're unregistering.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so this is the part where the manpage goes absolutely feral with cross-references, and honestly? obsessed. keep up bestie 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c — that's the home turf, the source file where all this lives 🌸

and then the whole friend group:

• iio_device_id(9)
• iio_buffer_enabled(9)
• iio_find_channel_from_si(9)
• iio_device_set_clock(9)
• iio_device_get_clock(9)
• iio_get_time_ns(9)
• iio_read_mount_matrix(9)
• iio_format_value(9)
• __iio_str_to_fixpoint(9)
• iio_str_to_fixpoint(9)
• iio_free_chan_devattr_list(9)
• iio_device_alloc(9)
• iio_device_free(9)
• devm_iio_device_alloc(9)
• iio_chrdev_open(9)
• iio_chrdev_release(9)
• iio_active_scan_mask_index(9)
• __iio_dev_mode_lock(9)
• __iio_dev_mode_unlock(9)
• iio_device_get_current_mode(9)

like, twenty of them. twenty!! that's not a SEE ALSO section, that's a group chat 💀 but every single one is listed above, fr fr, go click around, iykyk 🧚

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quick vibe check: the original page gives you no return value, no errors, no exit statuses and no environment variables — it's a void function with one argument. so if you were waiting for a plot twist, there isn't one. that's the whole page. and yet we ATE 🍓

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mwah 💖 that's the page. source: ./drivers/iio, and the date stamp on this whole thing is October 2026 — go forth and unregister responsibly, bestie 🫶✨