parport_ip32...egister_port(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💫 parport_ip32_unregister_port(9) — the "we're so done here" cleanup era 💫

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the little kernel doc page for saying bye-bye to a parallel port, and honestly? it's giving respectful teardown energy 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

parport_ip32_unregister_port — unregister a parallel port 💅

like, you're done with it, so you're gonna politely yeet it out of the system. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void parport_ip32_unregister_port (struct parport *p );

yes, it returns void. it's a void bestie, it does the thing and doesn't even brag about it ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • p — pointer to the struct parport

that's it. that's the whole argument list. one pointer, one job, main character energy 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea ☕ — this function unregisters a parallel port and frees up all the stuff that was previously allocated for it: memory, IRQ... you know, all the little resources it was hoarding. lowkey a responsible queen for cleaning up after herself 🙈✨

💀 heads up: this is the cleanup counterpart to registering a port. it doesn't just say it frees resources — it actually frees them. the ... in the description is literally the manpage going "and so on, you get it." so like, memory, IRQ, and friends. all of it. gone. slay.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group comes along, iykyk 💜 first up, the source file and the types:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/parport/parport_ip32.c
  • struct parport_ip32_regs(9)
  • enum parport_ip32_irq_mode(9)
  • struct parport_ip32_private(9)
  • struct parport_ip32_dma_data(9)

and now the entire extended squad — literally every one of them, no skipping 🫶:

like, the whole driver. the entire clique. obsessed 💅

💖 okay that's the page!! this little baddie lives in ./drivers/parport and the version stamp says October 2026 — so yeah, future-flavored kernel docs fr fr 🌈 go forth and unregister responsibly bestie, mwah 🫶✨
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