intel_scu_ipc_dev_get(9)

🌸 intel_scu_ipc_dev_get(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — literally the intel_scu_ipc_dev_get page, and no I'm not being weird, this one's actually kind of a big deal 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

intel_scu_ipc_dev_get — Get SCU IPC instance 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct intel_scu_ipc_dev * intel_scu_ipc_dev_get (void );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• void — no arguments. like, none. zero. nada. the void is voiding 🙈

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so here's the tea ☕ — the recommended new API takes the SCU IPC instance as a parameter, and this function is the one your driver calls to get that instance. main character energy fr ✨

and listen, it's not just handing you a pointer and dipping — it also makes sure that the driver providing the IPC functionality cannot be unloaded while the caller still has the instance. so it's like, protective. lowkey obsessed with that for us 🫶

when you're done with it, call intel_scu_ipc_dev_put to release the instance. don't just ghost it, that's rude 😭

and if SCU IPC is not currently available? it returns NULL. that's it, that's the vibe check — NULL means nope, not available right now 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c 👑
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_put(9)
• devm_intel_scu_ipc_dev_get(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_ioread8(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_iowrite8(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_readv(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_writev(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_update(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_simple_command(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_dev_command_with_size(9)
• __intel_scu_ipc_register(9)
• intel_scu_ipc_unregister(9)
• __devm_intel_scu_ipc_register(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie 💜 this lil cutie lives in ./drivers/platform/x86, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual. go off, read the source, slay ✨🎀