tty_driver_install_tty(9)

💖 tty_driver_install_tty(9) 💖

okay bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and the star is literally tty_driver_install_tty — the function that installs a tty entry in the driver. no cap, it's giving kernel-internals main character energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tty_driver_install_tty — install a tty entry in the driver.

🛠️ SYNOPSIS 🛠️

int tty_driver_install_tty (struct tty_driver *driver , struct tty_struct *tty );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• driver — the driver for the tty. the whole reason we're here, bestie.
• tty — the tty. yep, that's the tty.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Install a tty object into the driver tables. The tty->index field will be set by the time this is called. This method is responsible for ensuring any need additional structures are allocated and configured.

Locking: tty_mutex for now. for now. okay? noted 🫶

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c, plus the whole cross-reference squad:

• free_tty_struct(9)
• tty_free_file(9)
• tty_name(9)
• get_tty_driver(9)
• tty_dev_name_to_number(9)
• tty_find_polling_driver(9)
• tty_wakeup(9)
• tty_release_redirect(9)
• __tty_hangup(9)
• tty_hangup(9)
• tty_vhangup(9)
• tty_vhangup_self(9)
• tty_vhangup_session(9)
• tty_hung_up_p(9)
• stop_tty(9)
• start_tty(9)
• tty_read(9)
• tty_write(9)
• tty_send_xchar(9)
• pty_line_name(9)
• tty_line_name(9)
• tty_driver_lookup_tty(9)
• tty_init_termios(9)
• tty_standard_install(9)
• tty_driver_remove_tty(9)
• tty_reopen(9)
• tty_init_dev(9)
• tty_save_termios(9)
• tty_flush_works(9)
• release_one_tty(9)
• tty_kref_put(9)
• release_tty(9)
• tty_release_checks(9)
• tty_kclose(9)
• tty_release_struct(9)
• tty_release(9)
• tty_open_current_tty(9)
• tty_lookup_driver(9)
• tty_kopen_exclusive(9)
• tty_kopen_shared(9)
• tty_open_by_driver(9)
• tty_open(9)
• tty_poll(9)
• tiocsti(9)
• tiocgwinsz(9)
• tty_do_resize(9)
• tiocswinsz(9)
• tioccons(9)
• tiocsetd(9)
• tiocgetd(9)
• send_break(9)
• tty_get_tiocm(9)
• tty_tiocmget(9)
• tty_tiocmset(9)
• tty_get_icount(9)
• alloc_tty_struct(9)
• tty_put_char(9)
• tty_register_device(9)
• tty_register_device_attr(9)
• tty_unregister_device(9)
• __tty_alloc_driver(9)
• tty_driver_kref_put(9)
• tty_register_driver(9)
• tty_unregister_driver(9)

that's the whole page, bestie. source/version is ./drivers/tty, dated October 2026, and the page itself is tty_driver_install_tty(9). mwah, go install that tty entry 💋✨