pinmux_gene...ee_functions(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 pinmux_generic_free_functions(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for pinmux_generic_free_functions(9), and yes it's a whole vibe. it's short, it's sweet, and it's got one (1) very important rule. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pinmux_generic_free_functions — literally removes all functions 🧹✨

like. all of them. the whole function list. gone. poof.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void pinmux_generic_free_functions(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev);

that's it. one line. returns void, which is giving "i do the work and i don't report back" energy 😭

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pctldev — the pin controller device 👑 this is the device whose functions are getting yeeted.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, and it's a big one, so listen up 🫶:

the caller must take care of locking. no cap, this function does not do the locking for you. that responsibility is 100% yours, main character. handle it.

and the second thing — and this is the cute part — the pinctrl functions are allocated with devm_kzalloc, so there is no need to free them here. the devm_ machinery handles that for you. so you're not doing manual cleanup, you're just doing the removal. slay 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the friend group, all the related pages you might wanna peek at 👀 all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c:

go read them, they're iconic, iykyk 🌈

anyway that's the whole page, she's short but she's perfect 🎀 this lil beauty lives in ./drivers/pinctrl, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, catch you in the next one bestie 💜🫶✨

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