pcmcia_release_io(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

hey bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for pcmcia_release_io(9) β€” yes, section 9, we're in our kernel era πŸ’…βœ¨

πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

pcmcia_release_io - release I/O allocated by a PCMCIA device

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole call is giving:

void pcmcia_release_io (struct pcmcia_device *p_dev );

🫢 ARGUMENTS 🫢

  • p_dev β€” pcmcia device. that's the whole argument, no cap πŸŽ€

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

pcmcia_release_io releases the I/O ranges allocated by a PCMCIA device. ✨

okay so timing tea: this may be invoked some time after a card ejection has already dumped the actual socket configuration. so if the client is "stale", we don't bother checking the port ranges against the current socket values. periodt πŸ’…

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

the kernel file is ./drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, and these are the linked besties:

mwah πŸ’‹ β€” this one comes to you from ./drivers/pcmcia, dated October 2026, and it's pcmcia_release_io(9), signing off. slay, bestie πŸ¦‹

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