scmi_notification_exit(9)

💅 scmi_notification_exit — a Kernel API Manual moment (section 9, bestie)

okay so real talk, we're deep in the scmi_notification_exit(9) glow-up era and this page is literally your cheat sheet ✨

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🌸 NAME

scmi_notification_exit — shut it down and clean up the Notification core 🧹🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

So the whole thing is literally this one line, no cap:

void scmi_notification_exit(struct scmi_handle *handle);

returns void — it gives nothing back, and honestly? iconic of it 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• handle — the handle that identifies which platform instance you're shutting down 🦋 she's the VIP pass, the "yes this one, not that one" of the whole operation.

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🔥 SEE ALSO

okay this list is LONG, like a whole friend group chat, but every single one of them matters so here we go, no skipping 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/notify.c 😭 (the source of truth, the main character)
• Theory of operation(9)
• struct scmi_notify_instance(9)
• struct events_queue(9)
• struct scmi_event_header(9)
• struct scmi_registered_events_desc(9)
• struct scmi_registered_event(9)
• struct scmi_event_handler(9)
• scmi_lookup_and_call_event_chain(9)
• scmi_process_event_header(9)
• scmi_process_event_payload(9)
• scmi_events_dispatcher(9)
• scmi_notify(9)
• scmi_kfifo_free(9)
• scmi_initialize_events_queue(9)
• scmi_allocate_registered_events_desc(9)
• scmi_register_protocol_events(9)
• scmi_deregister_protocol_events(9)
• scmi_allocate_event_handler(9)
• scmi_free_event_handler(9)
• scmi_bind_event_handler(9)
• scmi_valid_pending_handler(9)
• scmi_register_event_handler(9)
• __scmi_event_handler_get_ops(9)
• scmi_get_active_handler(9)
• __scmi_enable_evt(9)
• scmi_put_handler_unlocked(9)
• scmi_event_handler_enable_events(9)
• scmi_notifier_register(9)
• scmi_notifier_unregister(9)
• scmi_devm_notifier_register(9)
• scmi_devm_notifier_unregister(9)
• scmi_protocols_late_init(9)
• scmi_notification_init(9)
• scmi_notification_quiesce(9)

like… the way this page links the ENTIRE notification cinematic universe? obsessed 💜 read them all, fr fr.

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🫶 friendly reminder that scmi_notification_exit is the cleanup one — she's the friend who stays after the party and helps you take the trash out. Go read scmi_notification_init(9) first if you wanna see how the whole thing started 😌

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and that's the page!! mwah 💖 this little number lives in ./drivers/firmware/arm_scmi, dated October 2026 — from the Kernel API Manual. bye bestie, go free those event handlers responsibly 🌈⭐🎀