tty_driver_remove_tty(9)

💅 tty_driver_remove_tty — Kernel API Manual 💅

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is literally tty_driver_remove_tty — the function that removes a tty from the driver tables. that's the whole name vibe, bestie. 💫

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is giving:

void tty_driver_remove_tty (struct tty_driver *driver , struct
       tty_struct *tty );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• driver — the driver for the tty 🚗✨
• tty — tty to remove 🗑️💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function removes a tty object from the driver tables — yes, literally yeets it out of the tables. 🫶

the tty->index field will be set by the time this is called. no cap. ⭐

Locking: tty_mutex for now. 🔒

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, the lore is deep — peep the kernel file and this whole friend group:

• Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c 📁
• 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_install_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)

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bestie, that's the whole page! it lives in ./drivers/tty, it's dated October 2026, and it's literally tty_driver_remove_tty(9) — mwah 💋 bye! 🌸