tb_switch_remove(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 tb_switch_remove — the Kernel API Manual moment (section 9, obviously)

okay bestie, welcome to tb_switch_remove from the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in section 9, the big-kid kernel functions, and no I will not be normal about it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

tb_switch_remove — Remove and release a switch 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void tb_switch_remove (struct tb_switch *sw );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. void, so it gives you nothing back — it just does 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • sw — the switch you want to remove, bestie. the one that's gotta go 🦋

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so here's the tea ☕ — this will remove the switch from the domain, and then it releases it after the last reference count drops to zero. so like, it's not gone-gone the second you call it, it's gone when everyone else stops holding hands with it 😭

and if there are switches connected below this switch, they will be removed as well. the whole lil family tree comes down with it, no cap 🌈 think main character energy but make it a cascade.

ngl, that second part is the important bit — it's not just this switch, it's everything hanging off it too 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c, and it is surrounded by icons, iykyk. here's the full squad, everybody pulls up:

like, fifty-nine of them. fifty-nine!! 🧚 the whole friend group, obsessed 🔥

and that's the page, bestie 🍓 this lil gem comes to you straight out of ./drivers/thunderbolt, dated October 2026 — yeah, future-coded, we know 💜 slay, bye 👋✨

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