iwl_mei_start_unregister(9)

✨ iwl_mei_start_unregister — the Kernel API Manual moment 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the iwl_mei_start_unregister(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 🎀 this one's short and sweet but lowkey important, so pay attention fr fr.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iwl_mei_start_unregister — the moment you tell iwlmei "bestie we're breaking up", aka unregister the wifi driver from iwlmei 💔✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void iwl_mei_start_unregister (void );

that's it. no parameters. no drama. periodt 💅

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🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• void — no arguments 🫶 literally nothing to pass in, iconic behaviour honestly

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the vibe check 💖 From this point on, iwlmei will not use the callbacks provided by the driver — like, those callbacks are officially off the guest list 🙈 — but the device is still usable ✨ so don't panic, it's giving "we're not together but we're still cool" energy. No cap.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/iwl-mei.h — go read the header bestie, iykyk 📖
• Introduction(9)
• Life cycle(9)
• Memory layout(9)
• Concurrency(9)
• Probe and remove from mei bus driver(9)
• Driver load when CSME owns the device(9)
• CSME behavior regarding the ownership requests(9)
• Driver load when CSME is associated and a session is active(9)
• Datapath(9)
• enum iwl_mei_nvm_caps(9)
• struct iwl_mei_nvm(9)
• enum iwl_mei_pairwise_cipher(9)
• enum iwl_mei_akm_auth(9)
• struct iwl_mei_conn_info(9)
• struct iwl_mei_colloc_info(9)
• enum iwl_mei_sap_version(9)
• iwl_mei_is_connected(9)
• iwl_mei_get_nvm(9)
• iwl_mei_get_ownership(9)
• iwl_mei_set_rfkill_state(9)
• iwl_mei_set_nic_info(9)
• iwl_mei_set_country_code(9)
• iwl_mei_set_power_limit(9)
• iwl_mei_register(9)
• iwl_mei_unregister_complete(9)
• iwl_mei_set_netdev(9)
• iwl_mei_tx_copy_to_csme(9)
• iwl_mei_host_associated(9)
• iwl_mei_host_disassociated(9)
• iwl_mei_device_state(9)
• iwl_mei_pldr_req(9)
• iwl_mei_alive_notif(9)

like, that's a whole friend group of functions and structs and enums and you should absolutely go say hi to all of them 🧚‍♀️💜

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reminder bestie: the callbacks stop being used after this call, but the device stays usable — that's the whole point, don't forget it 💀

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okay that's the page! this kernel API manual entry (the iwl_mei_start_unregister(9) one, from the kernel docs source out at ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i...) is dated October 2026 — mwah, go touch some grass now, you ate this 💅✨🎀🦋