mei_me_cl_release(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 mei_me_cl_release 💅

okay bestie, quick vibe check: we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is mei_me_cl_release. she frees a me client. that's it, that's the whole personality. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mei_me_cl_release — free me client 🦋

lowkey the most self-explanatory name ever and honestly? we love a function that knows what it is.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void mei_me_cl_release (struct kref *ref );

no return value, she just does the thing and leaves. iconic behavior ngl 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • ref — the me_client refcount, aka the little counter that decides when it's time to let go 🧚

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Locking: this one gets called under the "dev->device_lock" lock, periodt. so don't be out here calling it wherever you feel like it — the lock situation is not a suggestion, it's the whole rule 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the source lives in the kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/client.c, and here's the entire extended friend group — not me listing all 67 of them, i would never... okay i absolutely would, look at them go 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, ate and left no crumbs 💖

from ./drivers/misc/mei, dated October 2026 — mwah, see u in the next man page 😘💜
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