ishtp_io_rb_free(9)

💅 ishtp_io_rb_free(9) — your fave Kernel API Manual bestie

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is ishtp_io_rb_free 🎀 she's a lil function with one job and she does it flawlessly.

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✨ NAME ✨

ishtp_io_rb_free — frees an IO request block. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ishtp_io_rb_free (struct ishtp_cl_rb *rb );

like, she takes one (1) pointer, returns void (nothing back, she's not about to give you a receipt), and honestly? iconic behaviour. 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• rb — the IO request block. yes that's literally the whole description, she's lowkey mysterious like that 🙈

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

frees the memory of an io request block. the way that this is genuinely the entire description and yet it's so real — this function takes your IO request block memory and sends it back into the void ✨ bye bestie, thank you for your service 🫶

it's giving "short and sweet, but crucial," fr fr. everything that allocates needs a free, iykyk 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

bestie go read the source, she's right here:

• Kernel file ./drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client-buffers.c
• ishtp_cl_alloc_rx_ring(9)
• ishtp_cl_alloc_tx_ring(9)
• ishtp_cl_free_rx_ring(9)
• ishtp_cl_free_tx_ring(9)
• ishtp_io_rb_init(9)
• ishtp_io_rb_alloc_buf(9)
• ishtp_cl_io_rb_recycle(9)
• ishtp_cl_rx_get_rb(9)

the whole friend group!! the rx/tx ring girlies and the rb girlies all hanging out together, we love a connected cast 🌈👑

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ngl, when you're done here go say hi to her siblings — free and alloc energy is a lifestyle 💀

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from ./drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp, dated October 2026, and signed off on ishtp_io_rb_free(9) — mwah, slay, periodt 💜