pci_ide_stream_free(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for pci_ide_stream_free 🫶 — and yes, this is the function whose whole little main-character job is to unwind pci_ide_stream_alloc(). That's the name, that's the vibe, periodt 💅.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void pci_ide_stream_free (struct pci_ide *ide );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ide — the idle IDE settings descriptor 🍓. That's the descriptor you're handing over, no cap.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so picture this: pci_ide_stream_free frees all of the stream index (register block) allocations that were acquired by pci_ide_stream_alloc ✨. Every single one. It's giving cleanup era, fr fr.

Important vibe check though: the stream represented by ide is assumed to be unregistered and not instantiated in any device 😭. That's the assumption, bestie — not me making it up. So keep that in mind before you call her.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/pci/ide.c is right there, and the whole squad is:

• pci_ide_stream_alloc(9)
• pci_ide_stream_release(9)
• pci_ide_stream_register(9)
• pci_ide_stream_unregister(9)
• pci_ide_stream_to_regs(9)
• pci_ide_stream_setup(9)
• pci_ide_stream_teardown(9)
• pci_ide_stream_enable(9)
• pci_ide_stream_disable(9)
• pci_ide_set_nr_streams(9)

iykyk 👑💖

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mwah 💋 — this page comes from the ./drivers/pci source/version, dated October 2026, and it's still serving pci_ide_stream_free(9) from the Kernel API Manual. slay 🎀✨