pcibios_release_device(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pcibios_release_device — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to pcibios_release_device(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real section 9 page and yes it's lowkey iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pcibios_release_device — the arch-specific hook that fires when we're releasing device dev, no cap 🫶

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void pcibios_release_device (struct pci_dev *dev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dev — the PCI device being released 💖 like, this is the device in question, the main character of the release moment 👑

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the vibe: this function "permits the platform to provide architecture specific functionality when devices are released." Translation bestie — it's the little doorway where your architecture gets to do its own special thing while a device is being let go 🚪✨

This one is the default implementation. That's the whole point — it's the plain, generic version, sitting there doing the baseline thing so other arches have something to override 💅

And yeah, "Architecture implementations can override this." — so on your arch, this may not be the version that actually runs. iykyk 🙈 don't assume it's this one just because you called it 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/pci/pci.c — and honestly, the whole PCI friend group showed up. Every single one of these, bestie, no skips 💀🍓

like, that's the entire PCI extended family at one reunion and they ALL said yes to the invite 😭💀

okay bye bestie, this page came from ./drivers/pci and it's dated October 2026 — that's the source and the version/date info, so now you know exactly where this queen came from 👑🌸 slay, read responsibly ✨💖

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