parport_unregister_driver(9)

💅 parport_unregister_driver(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a lil goodbye song 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

parport_unregister_driver — the "we're so over" moment for a parallel port device driver 💔✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void parport_unregister_driver (struct parport_driver *drv );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• drv — the structure describing the driver, i.e. the exact same one you handed to parport_register_driver back when you were all excited to be here 🫶 it's giving "the receipt from the registration", keep it, you need it now.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like — this is the function a parallel port device driver calls when it's about to be unloaded, but only if it registered itself with parport_register_driver first. you don't just dip out without saying bye, that's rude 😭

when it returns, two things are true, periodt:

• the driver's attach routine will no longer be called — no new ports for you, bestie, the door is closed 🔥
• for each port that attach was called for, the detach routine will have been called — every single one gets its proper goodbye 🌈

and the big one, ngl, this is the whole vibe: all of the driver's attach and detach calls are guaranteed to have finished by the time this function returns. like, fully done, not "still finishing up in the background", done done 💅👑

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• Kernel file ./drivers/parport/share.c __parport_register_driver(9)
• parport_get_port(9)
• parport_put_port(9)
• parport_register_port(9)
• parport_announce_port(9)
• parport_remove_port(9)
• parport_register_dev_model(9)
• parport_unregister_device(9)
• parport_find_number(9)
• parport_find_base(9)
• parport_claim(9)
• parport_claim_or_block(9)
• parport_release(9)

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ngl the whole friend group is in there — go read them, iykyk 🧚💜

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mwah, that's the whole page 🍓 it lives down in ./drivers/parport, stamped October 2026, and it's a parport_unregister_driver(9) original — slay, go unregister responsibly ✨💅🎀