match_parisc_device(9)

💅 match_parisc_device(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, the manual manual, we're doing this 🫶. This whole page is about match_parisc_device, and honestly? it's a little matchmaker. It takes a parisc device and a hardware path and is like "do these two know each other? are they giving soulmate or are they giving strangers?" 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

match_parisc_device — Matches a parisc device against a given hardware path entry. that's it. that's the whole job. lowkey iconic for knowing exactly what it wants 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int match_parisc_device (struct device *dev , int index , struct
       hardware_path *modpath );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the generic device (known to be contained by a parisc_device). yeah she's generic on the outside but she's got a parisc device inside her, iykyk 🦋
• index — the current BC index. just the current BC index. no notes. periodt ✨
• modpath — the hardware path. the path. the hardware one. the hardware path 🎯

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💀 RETURN 💀

true if the device matches the hardware path. that's the whole vibe check — matched or not matched, no in-between, no "it's complicated" 🙈

ngl bestie, non-zero means it matched. the page says "true", so we say "true". we don't make stuff up around here 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long and honestly it ate. first up, the source itself lives in the Kernel file ./arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c — go read her, she's the main character 👑

and then the whole friend group, in order, no cap:

• for_each_padev(9)
• match_device(9)
• register_parisc_driver(9)
• count_parisc_driver(9)
• unregister_parisc_driver(9)
• find_pa_parent_type(9)
• print_pa_hwpath(9)
• get_pci_node_path(9)
• print_pci_hwpath(9)
• alloc_tree_node(9)
• register_parisc_device(9)
• match_pci_device(9)
• parse_tree_node(9)
• hwpath_to_device(9)
• device_to_hwpath(9)
• walk_native_bus(9)
• walk_central_bus(9)
• init_parisc_bus(9)
• print_parisc_devices(9)

like… the roster? unmatched. scream it with me: register, unregister, print, match, walk 🧚⭐

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anyway that's the page bestie, hope the vibe check passed 💖 this lil number lives under ./arch/parisc/kernel, stamped October 2026, and it's match_parisc_device(9) all the way down. mwah, go match some devices 🎀🔥