release_pcie_device(9)

🦋 release_pcie_device(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie! This is the page for release_pcie_device, and it's giving “cleanup era” ✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

release_pcie_device — free PCI Express port service device structure 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void release_pcie_device (struct device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the port service device to release, no cap 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This one gets invoked automatically when the device is being removed in response to device_unregister(dev). Its whole job? Release all resources being claimed. Periodt. 💀✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file ./drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c is right there in the group chat, and these functions are all linked too:

• pcie_port_enable_irq_vec(9)
• pcie_init_service_irqs(9)
• get_port_device_capability(9)
• pcie_device_init(9)
• pcie_port_device_register(9)
• pcie_port_device_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_resume(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_resume(9)
• pcie_port_find_device(9)
• pcie_port_device_remove(9)
• pcie_port_bus_probe(9)
• pcie_port_bus_remove(9)
• pcie_port_service_register(9)
• pcie_port_service_unregister(9)

xoxo, your Kernel API Manual bestie 💜 — source/version ./drivers/pci/pcie, dated October 2026, and the page is release_pcie_device(9) 🫶💅