telem_device_probe(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to telem_device_probe(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖. This page is literally about the Callback when creating a new device. That's the whole NAME moment ✨.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int telem_device_probe (struct platform_device *pdev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the platform device that we will be receiving telems from 🫶.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this finds a free minor number for the device, allocates and initializes some device data, and creates a new device and char dev node. That's it — a whole little device creation moment, no cap 💅.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉
• negative error code on failure 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/telemetry.c
• struct wilco_ec_telem_request(9)
• check_telem_request(9)
• struct telem_device_data(9)
• struct telem_session_data(9)
• telem_open(9)
• telem_device_free(9)

sign-off from the footer bestie: source/version snippet ./drivers/platform/chrome/wilc..., dated October 2026 — mwah 💋 bye 🧚