mdio_device_remove(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is mdio_device_remove(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “cleanup era” ✨. The one-liner is: mdio_device_remove - Remove a previously registered mdio device from the MDIO bus. No cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void mdio_device_remove (struct mdio_device *mdiodev );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• mdiodev — the mdio_device structure to remove. literally hand it over and it gets removed from the bus. 💅

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay bestie, real talk: this function doesn't free the mdio_device itself. It merely reverses the effects of mdio_device_register. That's the entire assignment. 🫶

So after you call mdio_device_remove, if you actually want the device freed, you use mdio_device_free to free the device after calling this function. Do not skip that step, iykyk. 💀

⚠️ reminder: remove ≠ free. This call is the “undo the register” moment, not the “destroy the struct” moment. Use mdio_device_free afterward for that. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/mdio_device.c
• mdio_device_register_reset(9)
• mdio_device_unregister_reset(9)
• mdio_device_register(9)
• mdio_probe(9)
• mdio_driver_register(9)

source/version: ./drivers/net/phy · date: October 2026 · page: mdio_device_remove(9) 🫶💖