mei_me_shutdown(9)

💅 mei_me_shutdown(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual, but make it cute 🎀

okay bestie, sit down, grab a boba, because we're reading a manpage from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "quick errand run" energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mei_me_shutdown — the Device Removal Routine 👑 (yes, that's its whole government name, and it is serving)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void mei_me_shutdown (struct pci_dev *pdev );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. void in, void out, no return value, no drama 🙈

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• pdev — the PCI device structure 💅 like, that's the one (1) thing you hand it, and it's the PCI device struct. iconic, minimal, no notes.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — mei_me_shutdown gets called from the reboot notifier. it is literally a simplified version of remove so that we go down faster 🔥 like, remove but make it speedrun, yk? we're not doing the whole full teardown routine here, we're just dipping out quick so the reboot can go. periodt. ⭐

ngl it's the "leaving the party and just grabbing your coat" of kernel routines — no long goodbyes, just fast exit energy 🏃‍♀️💨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c 🍓
• mei_me_quirk_probe(9)
• mei_me_probe(9)
• mei_me_remove(9)
• mei_me_set_pm_domain(9)
• mei_me_unset_pm_domain(9)

like, go read the whole friend group, they're all connected iykyk 💜

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and that's the page!! 🫶 brought to you by ./drivers/misc/mei, dated October 2026, and yeah — that's the source and the date, consider them shouted out at the very end like a proper credits roll 🌈💀 slay.