pci_hp_destroy(9)

✨ NAME ✨

pci_hp_destroy — remove hotplug slot from in-kernel use

okay so bestie, this is the page from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s all about cleanly destroying a PCI hotplug slot so it’s no longer in in-kernel use. lowkey important cleanup energy 💅

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🛠️ SYNOPSIS

void pci_hp_destroy (struct hotplug_slot *slot );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• slot — pointer to the struct hotplug_slot to destroy. that’s the one getting the goodbye treatment 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION

so pci_hp_destroy destroys a PCI slot used by a hotplug driver. once this has been called, the driver may no longer invoke hotplug_slot_name to get the slot’s unique name — fr fr, that’s the rule.

the driver also no longer needs to handle a ->reset_slot callback from this point on. so after this call, that callback handling is not needed anymore. periodt ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file: ./drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
• __pci_hp_register(9)
• __pci_hp_initialize(9)
• pci_hp_add(9)
• pci_hp_deregister(9)
• pci_hp_del(9)
• pci_hp_ignore_link_change(9)
• pci_hp_unignore_link_change(9)
• pci_hp_spurious_link_change(9)

go read those too, iykyk 👑

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cute sign-off, bestie: this one’s from ./drivers/pci/hotplug, dated October 2026, and it’s pci_hp_destroy(9). stay slaying 🌈💖