pm_runtime_remove(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 pm_runtime_remove — bestie, it's time to say goodbye 💅

okay so real talk: this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about the one little cleanup step you do when a device is peacing out of the device hierarchy forever. no cap, it's a short one, so let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pm_runtime_remove — get everything ready for yeeting a device out of the device hierarchy 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

void pm_runtime_remove (struct device *dev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's simple, she's iconic 👑

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • dev — the device object that's being removed from the device hierarchy. this is the main character of the operation, the one getting un-alived (from the hierarchy) 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie there are so many siblings, this function has a whole extended family, and honestly? they all ate. go read these next, iykyk:

and if you wanna see where the magic actually lives, it's right here in the kernel file:

./drivers/base/power/runtime.c
ngl the vibes here are very "last day of school energy" — the device is leaving, and pm_runtime_remove is the friend helping pack the boxes 🎀✨

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💜 — mwah, this one's served fresh from ./drivers/base/power, dated October 2026 🦋⭐

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