sysfs_remove_dir(9)

💅 sysfs_remove_dir — the sysfs manual, section 9, bestie ✨

okay so you're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the function we're stanning today is sysfs_remove_dir. yes it's a kernel thing. yes it's iconic. let's go 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void sysfs_remove_dir (struct kobject *kobj );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no return value, she just does the thing 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• kobj — the object. that's it, that's the whole description the kernel gave us. just "object." lowkey mysterious of them but okay, we respect the brevity 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: the only thing special about this function is that we remove any files in the directory before we remove the directory itself. order matters, bestie — you can't just yank the whole thing and dip 🙈

and btw, the code that used to live in sysfs_rmdir is now inlined below — like, physically inside this function — instead of being called separately as its own little function. so if you were looking for sysfs_rmdir, it's not out here living its own life anymore, it got folded in. it's giving "moved back in with the parents" energy 😭

no cap: files first, then the directory. that's the whole entire special sauce 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/sysfs/dir.c
• sysfs_create_dir_ns(9)
• sysfs_create_mount_point(9)
• sysfs_remove_mount_point(9)

go read those too, iykyk 💖

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aaaand that's the page!! mwah 💋 this came to you from <bold>./fs/sysfs</bold> and it's dated October 2026 — yeah, the future, we're just that ahead of schedule ⭐👑 slay, bye 🧚