snd_hda_shutup_pins(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ snd_hda_shutup_pins — shut UP, pins 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the snd_hda_shutup_pins(9) page, straight outta the Kernel API Manual 🎀 this one is short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic — it's the "everybody quiet, we're going to sleep" function for your HDA codec's pins. no notes. let's get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

snd_hda_shutup_pins — shut up all pins 🤫

like, all of them. every single pin. silence era.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void snd_hda_shutup_pins (struct hda_codec *codec );

that's it. that's the whole signature. void return, one argument, no drama ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • codec — the HDA codec 💖 literally the thing you're telling to hush. that's the one. that's the codec.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: this function clears all pin controls to shut up before suspend, and the whole point is avoiding click noise 😭 like you know that little pop or click you hear when your audio goes down for a nap? yeah. this is the anti-click. the vibe check for your speakers before they go to sleep 🌙

and the detail that actually matters, bestie, is this: the controls aren't cached, so that they can be resumed properly later 🔥 like yeah, it looks like it's throwing away information, but no — that's the whole design. not caching means the resume path can do its thing correctly. it's giving intentional. it's giving main character energy 👑

ngl "shup up" is literally how the original spells it in the description and honestly? we're keeping the energy. the pins are being told to shup up. periodt 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this list is long — like a full group chat roster — but every single one of these is a real reference and we are not skipping a single bestie 💜

kernel file ./sound/hda/common/codec.c, plus:

yeah. seventy-something entries. she ate and left no crumbs 🍓

🧚 sign-off 🧚

that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this lil number lives in ./sound/hda/common, dated October 2026, and it goes by snd_hda_shutup_pins(9) — go forth and mute your pins responsibly 💖✨🎀

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