snd_hdac_bus...stream_pages(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 snd_hdac_bus...stream_pages(9)

okay bestie so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's short but it's mighty — it's the cleanup counterpart to the alloc function, and honestly? every icon needs their exit strategy ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

snd_hdac_bus_free_stream_pages — release BDL and other buffers 🫶

like, it hands the buffers back. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void snd_hdac_bus_free_stream_pages (struct hdac_bus *bus );

it returns void, so don't be out here expecting a return value — there isn't one, periodt 💀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • bus — the HD-audio core bus 💖 that's it. that's the whole argument list. one (1) bus, and it's the HD-audio core one.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ok this part is a whole friend group, lowkey a family reunion 😭 the kernel file lives at ./sound/hda/core/controller.c and it's giving main character energy — here's everyone:

and yeah — snd_hdac_bus_alloc_stream_pages(9) is right there in the list, which is exactly the one this bad boy undoes. matching set, iykyk 🎀✨

🌈 fr fr reminder: this is the free one. if you're looking at this thinking "wait, didn't I just allocate these?" — yes babe, that's the point. release the BDL and other buffers and let them go 💜

ok that's the whole page, she's short and she knows it 💅 this drop is from ./sound/hda/core, October 2026, straight out the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go free your buffers bestie, slay 🦋💖🎀

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