ps3_vuart_shutdown(9)

💅 ps3_vuart_shutdown(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 🎀

okay so bestie, you're looking at ps3_vuart_shutdown(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual name, we're not copying the header line, we're just saying it with our whole chest ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ps3_vuart_shutdown — cleans interrupts and HV resources 🧹💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ps3_vuart_shutdown (struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the struct ps3_system_bus_device instance, like, the actual device you're doing all this to 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so what this does: it cleans interrupts and HV resources. periodt. 🧼✨

and here's the part that's actually kind of iconic — after this call, the device can still be used in polling mode 👑 like it's not dead, it's just switching vibes.

this behavior is required by sys-manager so it can complete the device power operation sequence 🔥 so no, you can't skip it, it's giving mandatory, iykyk 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c and, like, the whole friend group 💜:

• struct ps3_vuart_port_priv(9)
• struct ports_bmp(9)
• ps3_vuart_set_interrupt_mask(9)
• ps3_vuart_raw_write(9)
• ps3_vuart_raw_read(9)
• ps3_vuart_clear_rx_bytes(9)
• struct list_buffer(9)
• ps3_vuart_write(9)
• ps3_vuart_queue_rx_bytes(9)
• ps3_vuart_read(9)
• ps3_vuart_work(9)
• ps3_vuart_handle_interrupt_tx(9)
• ps3_vuart_handle_interrupt_rx(9)
• ps3_vuart_handle_port_interrupt(9)
• ps3_vuart_irq_handler(9)
• ps3_vuart_cleanup(9)
• ps3_vuart_remove(9)
• ps3_vuart_port_driver_register(9)
• ps3_vuart_port_driver_unregister(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🫶 this came from ./drivers/ps3, dated October 2026, and it's ps3_vuart_shutdown(9) — go forth and shut down those vuarts responsibly 💅✨