platform_add_devices(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to platform_add_devices(9) from the Kernel API Manual — we’re folding that manual name in right at the top, periodt. The official NAME line is literally:

platform_add_devices — add a numbers of platform devices

(yes, “a numbers” is what it says and we are keeping it exactly, no cap 💀)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int platform_add_devices (struct platform_device **devs , int num );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• devs — array of platform devices to add 🫶
• num — number of platform devices in array ⭐

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💅 RETURN 💅

• 0 on success 🔥
• negative error number on failure 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/base/platform.c and the whole iconic friend group:

• platform_get_resource(9)
• devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource(9)
• devm_platform_ioremap_resource(9)
• devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname(9)
• platform_get_irq_affinity(9)
• platform_get_irq_optional(9)
• platform_get_irq(9)
• platform_irq_count(9)
• devm_platform_get_irqs_affinity(9)
• platform_get_resource_byname(9)
• platform_get_irq_byname(9)
• platform_get_irq_byname_optional(9)
• platform_device_put(9)
• platform_device_alloc(9)
• platform_device_add_resources(9)
• platform_device_add_data(9)
• platform_device_set_of_node(9)
• platform_device_set_fwnode(9)
• platform_device_set_of_node_from_dev(9)
• platform_device_add(9)
• platform_device_del(9)
• platform_device_register(9)
• platform_device_unregister(9)
• platform_device_register_full(9)
• __platform_driver_register(9)
• platform_driver_unregister(9)
• __platform_driver_probe(9)
• __platform_create_bundle(9)
• __platform_register_drivers(9)
• platform_unregister_drivers(9)
• platform_match(9)
• platform_find_device_by_driver(9)

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie — sign-off time 💅

source/version girlie ./drivers/base, dated October 2026, and this is your main character platform_add_devices(9) logging off 🎀🦋💖