of_reserved_mem_device_init(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is the of_reserved_mem_device_init(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally about assigning a reserved memory region to a given device. πŸ’…βœ¨


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int of_reserved_mem_device_init (struct device *dev );

πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • dev β€” pointer to the device to configure. that’s the whole vibe for this one, bestie 🫢

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

okay so here’s the tea: this function assigns the respective DMA-mapping operations based on the first reserved memory region specified by the 'memory-region' property in the device tree node of the given device. no cap, that’s the whole assignment situation. πŸ¦‹

and then it returns an error code or 0 on success β€” periodt. πŸ’…


πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

  • Kernel file ./include/linux/of_reserved_mem.h 🫢✨

mwah πŸ’‹ β€” source/version: ./include/linux Β· date: October 2026 πŸŒˆπŸ‘‘

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