pci_epf_destroy(9)

✨ pci_epf_destroy — destroy the created PCI EPF device ✨

Okay so real talk, bestie: this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual (yes, the 9 section, we're in kernel-land now 🧚) and it's literally just one tiny little function that undoes a thing. Short page, big slay. Let's get into it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void pci_epf_destroy (struct pci_epf *epf );

That's it. That's the whole vibe check. It returns void, so like… nothing comes back. No error code, no status, no lil receipt. It just happens 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• epf — the PCI EPF device that has to be destroyed. Like, this is the exact one you're sending to the shadow realm. It's a struct pci_epf *, and it's the one thing this function wants from you. No cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Invoke this when you need to destroy the PCI EPF device that got created by invoking pci_epf_create. That's the entire story, iykyk — pci_epf_create makes it, pci_epf_destroy un-makes it. Creation and destruction, main character energy on both sides 😭💖

Heads up bestie: the original page doesn't say anything about what happens if you pass in something weird, so I'm not gonna invent lore. Just destroy the thing you created and we move 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file lives at ./drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c — that's where the magic is, go read it, it's giving source-of-truth ⭐

And these icons, all in the same friend group:

• pci_epf_unbind(9)
• pci_epf_bind(9)
• pci_epf_add_vepf(9)
• pci_epf_remove_vepf(9)
• pci_epf_free_space(9)
• pci_epf_alloc_space(9)
• pci_epf_assign_bar_space(9)
• pci_epf_unregister_driver(9)
• __pci_epf_register_driver(9)
• pci_epf_create(9)
• pci_epf_align_inbound_addr(9)

Like, the whole EPF cinematic universe is right there. Go binge it 🌈

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That's the page, bestie 🎀 This lil masterpiece comes from ./drivers/pci/endpoint and it's dated October 2026 — put it in your calendar, screenshot it, frame it, whatever 💜✨