pcmcia_remove_one(9)

✨ pcmcia_remove_one ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — section 9, the kernel-functions corner of the manpage universe 🫶 — and it's about the function pcmcia_remove_one. it's short, it's sweet, and honestly it's giving "cleanup era" 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void pcmcia_remove_one (struct pcmcia_device *pdev );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. void return so nothing comes back to you, no cap 💀

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the pcmcia device. that's your girl. she's a struct pcmcia_device * and she's the whole reason we're here 🌈

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: a PCMCIA ATA device has been unplugged 🔌😭 bestie it's gone. so this function does the needed cleanup — the tidying up, the closing of the tabs, the "okay bye love you" of kernel teardown 🧚

and not me pointing out the bonus feature: it's also called on module unload for any active devices. so it's not just for the unplug moment, it's the cleanup crew whenever the module dips out 👑

literally just do the cleanup, no notes, periodt ⭐

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• the kernel file ./drivers/ata/pata_pcmcia.c — that's where the action lives 📁
• pcmcia_set_mode(9)
• pcmcia_set_mode_8bit(9)
• ata_data_xfer_8bit(9)
• pcmcia_8bit_drain_fifo(9)
• pcmcia_init_one(9) — the one who starts things, whereas our girl here ends them 🎬

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iykyk — the DESCRIPTION keeps saying it "performs the needed cleanup" and that is all it says. no extra lore. don't go inventing behaviour bestie, i'm not doing it and neither should you 🙈

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okay that's the page!! 🍓 she lives in ./drivers/ata, she's stamped October 2026, and she's very much a Kernel API Manual icon. mwah, go clean up your devices 💜✨