put_device(9)

💖 put_device(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, this is put_device(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving tiny-but-iconic: one function, one argument, one whole job. No cap. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

put_device — decrement reference count.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void put_device (struct device *dev );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• dev — device in question. That’s the whole vibe: you pass in the struct device * that is the device in question, and that’s it, periodt. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file is ./drivers/base/core.c, and the full linked-squad lineup is literally right here — every single one, no skipping:

• __fwnode_link_add(9), __fwnode_link_del(9), __fwnode_link_cycle(9), fwnode_links_purge_suppliers(9), fwnode_links_purge_consumers(9), fwnode_links_purge(9), __fwnode_links_move_consumers(9)
• __fw_devlink_pickup_dangling_consumers(9), fw_devlink_refresh_fwnode(9), device_is_dependent(9), device_pm_move_to_tail(9), device_link_wait_removal(9), device_link_add(9), device_link_del(9)
• device_link_remove(9), device_links_check_suppliers(9), __device_links_queue_sync_state(9), device_links_flush_sync_list(9), device_links_force_bind(9), device_links_driver_bound(9), __device_links_no_driver(9)
• device_links_no_driver(9), device_links_driver_cleanup(9), device_links_busy(9), device_links_unbind_consumers(9), device_links_purge(9), wait_for_init_devices_probe(9), fwnode_is_ancestor_of(9)
• fwnode_get_next_parent_dev(9), __fw_devlink_relax_cycles(9), fw_devlink_create_devlink(9), __fw_devlink_link_to_consumers(9), __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers(9), dev_driver_string(9), device_release(9)
• devm_device_add_group(9), devices_kset_move_before(9), devices_kset_move_after(9), devices_kset_move_last(9), device_create_file(9), device_remove_file(9), device_remove_file_self(9)
• device_create_bin_file(9), device_remove_bin_file(9), device_initialize(9), kobject_has_children(9), dev_set_name(9), device_add(9), device_register(9)
• get_device(9), device_del(9), device_unregister(9), device_get_devnode(9), device_for_each_child(9), device_for_each_child_reverse(9), device_for_each_child_reverse_from(9)
• device_find_child(9), device_offline(9), device_online(9), __root_device_register(9), root_device_unregister(9), device_create(9), device_create_with_groups(9)
• device_destroy(9), device_rename(9), device_move(9), device_change_owner(9), device_shutdown(9), dev_err_probe(9), dev_warn_probe(9)
• set_primary_fwnode(9), set_secondary_fwnode(9), device_remove_of_node(9), device_add_of_node(9), device_set_of_node_from_dev(9), get_dev_from_fwnode(9)

mwah 💋 that’s the whole page, bestie — it’s filed under ./drivers/base, dated October 2026, and yes, the title is put_device(9) 🫶✨