snd_unregister_device(9)

🌸 snd_unregister_device(9) — Kernel API Manual 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for snd_unregister_device(9) 💅 this is literally the “unregister that device file” moment, and it’s giving clean-up era ✨ no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

snd_unregister_device — unregister the device on the given card 🦋

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

int snd_unregister_device (struct device *dev );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — the device instance. that’s the device you’re passing in, bestie 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Unregisters the device file that was already registered via snd_register_device. periodt. it’s the reverse-vibe of registering it, and honestly? iconic 👑

🌈 RETURN 🌈

Zero if successful, or a negative error code on failure. so like: 0 = slay, negative = not slay 😭 fr fr

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./sound/core/sound.c
• snd_request_card(9)
• snd_lookup_minor_data(9)
• snd_register_device(9)

and that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 it lives in the source/version spot at ./sound/core, dated October 2026, and it’s literally snd_unregister_device(9). mwah 💋✨