realtek_smi_shutdown(9)

💅 realtek_smi_shutdown(9) — aka the Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's a short one but we're gonna give it the full main-character treatment anyway 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

realtek_smi_shutdown — shuts down the driver of an SMI-connected switch 🦋

no cap, that's the whole vibe: it's the shutdown girlie for the SMI-connected switch driver.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void realtek_smi_shutdown (struct platform_device *pdev );

literally that's it. void in, nothing out, one pdev argument and she's done 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• pdev — the platform_device that's shutting down. that's the one you're handing over, periodt.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: this function should be used as the .shutdown in a platform_driver. 🎀

it calls the common shutdown function. that's the whole bit. iconic, efficient, no notes.

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🧚 CONTEXT 🧚

Can sleep. 😴✨ so like, don't be calling her from somewhere rude where sleeping is forbidden, iykyk.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Nothing. nada. zero. void behavior, she gives you no return value back 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-smi.c
• realtek_smi_probe(9)
• realtek_smi_remove(9)

go read those too bestie, they're the rest of the friend group fr fr 🫶

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and that's the page! short and sweet, like a text you send just to say "thinking of you" 💌

okay so quick sign-off: this lil masterpiece lives in ./drivers/net/dsa/realtek, the date on it is October 2026, and the manual header/footer was realtek_smi_shutdown(9) all along. slay 🌸👑💜