snd_soc_dapm_free_widget(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 snd_soc_dapm_free_widget(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so this is a page straight outta the Kernel API Manual, and it's about exactly one little function that does exactly one little job: yeeting a widget out of existence. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

snd_soc_dapm_free_widget — literally just frees the widget you point at. that's the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void snd_soc_dapm_free_widget (struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • w — the widget you want to free. that's it. that's the argument. she's the main character here 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what actually happens? two things, and they both matter:

  1. it removes the widget from all paths — every route she was part of, gone, uninvited from the group chat 🫶
  2. it frees the memory that widget was occupying — bye bestie, thanks for the memories, the memory is now free 💀

that's the entire plot. no plot twists. iconic.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the manpage is basically throwing a whole party of related functions at you, so here's the full guest list, no one left out:

and if you wanna read the source yourself (slay, love that for you), it lives in the kernel file ./sound/soc/soc-dapm.c 💜

ngl bestie, this one's short — but every word of it is load-bearing. widget out of all paths, memory freed, done. 🧚

that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — brought to you by ./sound/soc, dated October 2026, and yes that's the source and the date folded right into the sign-off like a little bow 🎀 periodt.

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