media_reque...k_for_update(9)

💅 media_reque...k_for_update(9) 💅

okay bestie, quick vibe check: this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and no, the title isn't a typo, the man page generator literally truncated it like that. It's giving "my name got cut off in the group chat contact list" energy. Anyway. It's the unlock one. The key to the lock. Let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

media_request_unlock_for_update — unlock a request that you previously locked for update, periodt 🔓

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void media_request_unlock_for_update (struct media_request *req );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• req — the media request in question. that's it. that's the whole argument. she's simple, she's iconic 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so you locked a request earlier using media_request_lock_for_update, and now you're done with it, so you unlock it. that's the whole plot. this function is the "ok bye bestie 🫶" to that lock. no cap, that's literally it — it unlocks a request that has previously been locked using media_request_lock_for_update.

lowkey important: it's the unlock for the update lock, not the access lock. don't mix them up, i'm begging 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay this is the whole friend group, buckle up 🌈 — from the kernel file ./include/media/media-request.h:

• enum media_request_state(9)
• struct media_request(9)
• media_request_lock_for_access(9)
• media_request_unlock_for_access(9)
• media_request_lock_for_update(9)
• media_request_get(9)
• media_request_put(9)
• media_request_get_by_fd(9)
• media_request_alloc(9)
• media_request_mark_manual_completion(9)
• media_request_manual_complete(9)
• struct media_request_object_ops(9)
• struct media_request_object(9)
• media_request_object_get(9)
• media_request_object_put(9)
• media_request_object_find(9)
• media_request_object_init(9)
• media_request_object_bind(9)
• media_request_object_unbind(9)
• media_request_object_complete(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓

this little gem lives in ./include/media, and the version date on it is October 2026 — yes, future icon behavior 👑 ngl she's been sitting in that directory looking gorgeous since then. mwah 💋✨