irdma_rt_deinit_hw(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

irdma_rt_deinit_hw(9) πŸ’…βœ¨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual β€” this one's all about irdma_rt_deinit_hw and it's literally the cleanup queen of the irdma driver world πŸ§ΉπŸ‘‘


✨ NAME ✨

irdma_rt_deinit_hw β€” clean up the irdma device resources 🫢


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void irdma_rt_deinit_hw (struct irdma_device *iwdev );

πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • iwdev β€” the irdma device, aka the main character of this function πŸ’–

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so here's the vibe: this function is the big cleanup moment for your irdma device. it goes in and removes the mac ip entry and the ipv4/ipv6 addresses, then it destroys the device queues (bye bestie πŸ‘‹), and finally it frees the pble and the hmc objects. it's giving "responsible adult energy" fr fr β€” everything gets tidied away so nothing's left leaking in memory land πŸ˜­πŸ’€

no cap, think of it as the closing shift after the whole party: addresses swept up, queues shut down, and those hmc/pble objects released back into the wild. periodt 🎯


πŸ‘‘ SEE ALSO πŸ‘‘

the source lives in this kernel file:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/hw.c

and here's the whole friend group β€” every single one, no bestie left behind πŸ’œ:


alright bestie, that's the whole page πŸ’– this little section of the Kernel API Manual lives in ./drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma, dated October 2026 β€” go forth and deinit those resources responsibly, ily 🫢🌈⭐

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