media_device_cleanup(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

media_device_cleanup — Cleanups a media device element. 💅 This page is from the Kernel API Manual, and the function in question is media_device_cleanup(9). ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Here's the exact signature, no cap:

void media_device_cleanup (struct media_device *mdev );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• mdev — pointer to struct media_device. That's the one and only argument, bestie. 🫶

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Okay so this function destroys the graph_mutex that is initialized in media_device_init. That's literally the cleanup job — main character energy only. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/media/media-device.h — go peek, bestie.

• struct media_entity_notify(9)
• struct media_device_ops(9)
• struct media_device(9)
• media_device_init(9)
• __media_device_register(9)
• media_device_register(9)
• media_device_unregister(9)
• media_device_register_entity(9)
• media_device_unregister_entity(9)
• media_device_register_entity_notify(9)
• media_device_unregister_entity_notify(9)
• media_device_pci_init(9)
• __media_device_usb_init(9)
• media_device_usb_init(9)
• media_set_bus_info(9)

Signing off from the ./include/media source tree, October 2026 edition — k bye bestie, stay iconic 💜🎀