of_platform...create_pdata(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for of_platform...create_pdata(9) — literally the main character of this page. The actual name entry is of_platform_device_create_pdata: Alloc, initialize and register an of_device ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here’s the exact signature, no cap:

struct platform_device * of_platform_device_create_pdata (struct device_node *np , const char *bus_id , void *platform_data , struct device *parent );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• np — pointer to node to create device for 🌱
• bus_id — name to assign device 🏷️
• platform_data — pointer to populate platform_data pointer with 💾
• parent — Linux device model parent device 👑

💖 RETURN 💖

Pointer to created platform device, or NULL if a device was not registered. Unavailable devices will not get registered — periodt. 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/of/platform.c is the source-y bestie here, and these links are giving serious crossover energy:

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

and that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 source/version: ./drivers/of • dated October 2026 ✨