pcie_port_device_register(9)

💖 pcie_port_device_register(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner where we make PCI Express port registration feel like a group-chat moment. this page is for pcie_port_device_register, and it’s giving “one job, but make it kernel-core.” 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

pcie_port_device_register — register PCI Express port ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int pcie_port_device_register (struct pci_dev *dev );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — the PCI Express port to register, bestie. that’s the port you’re bringing into the register situation. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here’s the vibe: it allocates the port extension structure, and it registers services associated with the port. that’s the whole description, and it ate. no cap. 🔥

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the Kernel file said “come meet the fam”: ./drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c, then these icons in the same orbit:

• release_pcie_device(9)
• pcie_port_enable_irq_vec(9)
• pcie_init_service_irqs(9)
• get_port_device_capability(9)
• pcie_device_init(9)
• pcie_port_device_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_resume(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_resume(9)
• pcie_port_find_device(9)
• pcie_port_device_remove(9)
• pcie_port_bus_probe(9)
• pcie_port_bus_remove(9)
• pcie_port_service_register(9)
• pcie_port_service_unregister(9)

and that’s the page, bestie — source/version ./drivers/pci/pcie, dated October 2026. mwah 💋🌈