input_free_minor(9)

💅 input_free_minor(9) — Kernel API Manual glow-up 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to input_free_minor(9) from the Kernel API Manual. This is the cleanup-era icon for an input minor, and it’s genuinely not complicated: you release it, and then it can come back later. periodt. ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

input_free_minor — release previously allocated minor

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void input_free_minor (unsigned int minor );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• minor — the minor to be released. that’s the whole assignment, bestie 💖

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This function releases a previously allocated input minor so that it can be reused later.

lowkey it’s giving “return the borrowed hoodie so someone else can wear it” energy. no cap. 🦋

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file shoutout: ./drivers/input/input.c — and the full see-also squad, in order, no skipping:

• input_event(9)
• input_inject_event(9)
• input_alloc_absinfo(9)
• input_copy_abs(9)
• input_grab_device(9)
• input_release_device(9)
• input_open_device(9)
• input_close_device(9)
• input_scancode_to_scalar(9)
• input_default_setkeycode(9)
• input_get_keycode(9)
• input_set_keycode(9)
• input_reset_device(9)
• input_allocate_device(9)
• devm_input_allocate_device(9)
• input_free_device(9)
• input_set_timestamp(9)
• input_get_timestamp(9)
• input_set_capability(9)
• input_enable_softrepeat(9)
• input_register_device(9)
• input_unregister_device(9)
• input_register_handler(9)
• input_unregister_handler(9)
• input_handler_for_each_handle(9)
• input_register_handle(9)
• input_unregister_handle(9)
• input_get_new_minor(9)

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Cute little footer sign-off, because we don’t copy the line verbatim but we do keep the receipts: this page comes from ./drivers/input, dated October 2026, and it’s all about input_free_minor(9). bye bestie, go release that minor responsibly 💜🎀