pseries_of_derive_parent(9)

💅 pseries_of_derive_parent — pseries_of_derive_parent(9) 🎀

ok so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for pseries_of_derive_parent(9) ✨ this one's a tiny little cutie in the powerpc/pseries corner of the kernel, and honestly? she's giving "glorified dirname" and she knows it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

pseries_of_derive_parent — basically like dirname(1) 🫶 that's it, that's the whole vibe, no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct device_node * pseries_of_derive_parent (const char *path );

yep that's the whole signature, go off king 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• path — the full_name of a node to be added to the tree 🌳 like, the actual full name string of the node, okay? that's the thing you're handing her.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does she actually do?? she returns the node that should be the parent of the node described by path 👑 lowkey iconic.

the example that lives in the docs and honestly carries the whole page:

for path = "/foo/bar", she returns the node with full_name = "/foo" ⭐

so yeah — you point her at a path, she hands you back the node one level up. it's giving dirname, it's giving "who's your mother", it's giving parent energy fr fr 💀✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c — go read the source, bestie, it's right there 🙈💜

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and that's the whole page!! mwah 😘 this little entry ships out of ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries, under the very official Kernel API Manual banner, dated October 2026 — so like, mark your calendar, she's a fall release girly 🍓🎀💫