STRUCT ACPI_DEVICE_SOFTWARE_NODES(9)

👑 struct acpi_device_software_nodes(9) ✨

okay so this one's from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's giving "glow-up for ACPI devices" 💅 because it's literally all about software nodes for an ACPI device. no cap, that's the whole vibe. let me walk you through it bestie 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

struct acpi_device_software_nodes — Software nodes for an ACPI device ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the whole struct, verbatim, don't come for me about the formatting 😭

struct acpi_device_software_nodes {
    struct property_entry dev_props[ACPI_DEVICE_SWNODE_DEV_NUM_ENTRIES];
    struct software_node *nodes;
    const struct software_node **nodeptrs;
    struct acpi_device_software_node_port *ports;
    unsigned int num_ports;
 };

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💖 Members 💖

🎀 the fields, one by one 🎀

• dev_props — Device properties. that's it, that's the whole field, she's simple and she serves 💅
• nodes — the software nodes for the root plus the ports and endpoints. like the whole family tree lowkey 🌈
• nodeptrs — an array of software node pointers, and it's the one you use for (un)registering them. very main character energy 👑
• ports — all the info related to each port and endpoint within a port. yes, endpoints within a port, we contain multitudes 🦋
• num_ports — the number of ports. iconic, self-explanatory, we love her ⭐

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• the kernel file ./include/acpi/acpi_bus.h — struct 😌
• acpi_device_software_node_port(9)
• acpi_dev_uid_match(9)
• acpi_dev_hid_uid_match(9)
• for_each_acpi_consumer_dev(9)
• for_each_acpi_dev_match(9)

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bestie reminder: those trailing (9) are part of the names, so don't go stripping them, iykyk 🙈

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 💜 this one lives over in ./include/acpi, dated October 2026 — slay, go read the source, mwah 🍓✨