of_platform_depopulate(9)

💖 of_platform_depopulate(9) 💖

okay bestie, this one is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “clean up the device-tree children” energy. periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

of_platform_depopulate — remove devices populated from the device tree

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void of_platform_depopulate (struct device *parent );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• parent — the device whose children will be removed. yep, that's the parent getting its kiddos cleaned up 💅

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this function is complementary to of_platform_populate, iykyk. It removes children of the given device — and, recursively, their children too — but only the ones that were created from their respective device tree nodes.

And bestie, it's specific: only those get removed. Others, like manually created ones, are left unharmed. no cap, they stay safe 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/of/platform.c, plus these iconic little references:

• of_find_device_by_node(9)
• of_device_alloc(9)
• of_platform_device_create_pdata(9)
• of_platform_device_create(9)
• of_platform_bus_create(9)
• of_platform_bus_probe(9)
• of_platform_populate(9)
• devm_of_platform_populate(9)
• devm_of_platform_depopulate(9)

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💌 cute little sign-off: this page comes from source/version ./drivers/of, dated October 2026, and it's literally the of_platform_depopulate(9) manual page. mwah 💋✨