media_device_delete(9)

💖 NAME 💖

media_device_delete — Release media device. Calls kref_put().

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for media_device_delete(9), and it’s literally the cleanup girlie for a media device instance. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void media_device_delete (struct media_device *mdev , const char
*module_name , struct module *owner );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mdev — struct media_device pointer.
• module_name — should be filled with KBUILD_MODNAME.
• owner — struct module pointer; THIS_MODULE for the driver. THIS_MODULE is null for a built-in driver. It is safe even when THIS_MODULE is null.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This interface should be called to put the Media Device Instance kref. That’s the whole vibe: you call it, and it does the kref_put() thing. No cap, that’s the point.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./include/media/media-dev-allocator.h
• media_device_usb_allocate(9)

with love from ./include/media, October 2026 — media_device_delete(9) out 💖✨