media_device...ister_entity(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 media_device_unregister_entity — Kernel API Manual realness

okay bestie, welcome to the media_device_unregister_entity(9) page 💖 this is the one that yeets a media entity out of existence (registration-wise, anyway). buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

media_device_unregister_entity — unregisters a media entity. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void media_device_unregister_entity (struct media_entity *entity );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • entity — pointer to the struct media_entity you want unregistered 🫶 yes, the actual struct, hand it over

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — the moment you call this function, all links associated with the entity and all PADs get automatically unregistered from the media_device. no manual cleanup, no cap, it just handles it for you ✨

and bestie, important vibe check: unregistering an entity will not change the IDs of the other entities 👑 and that previously used ID will never be reused for newly registered entities. like, ever. it's retired. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

also, when a media device is unregistered, all its entities get unregistered automatically too 🌈 so you don't need to do any manual entity unregistration in that case. it's giving "the whole group chat left at once" energy 🦋

NOTE 👀💀 The media_entity instance itself must be freed explicitly by the driver if required. the unregister does not free it for you — that's on you, main character. don't leave it hanging 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

that's the whole page bestie, go unregister responsibly 🧚💜

sign-off time: this one lives in ./include/media, dated October 2026, and yeah — media_device...ister_entity(9) is the name it goes by because terminal width is a hater 😭 slay 💅⭐

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