tty_kref_put(9)

💅 tty_kref_put — release a tty kref ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this one's tty_kref_put(9) and it's literally the "k bye, love u, go be free" of the tty world 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tty_kref_put — release a tty kref, no cap 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tty_kref_put (struct tty_struct *tty );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• tty — the tty device, your main character 🎀

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: you drop a reference to the tty device (iconic, we love a clean handoff 👑), and if need be, you let the kref layer just destruct the object for us ✨. not us doing it ourselves, no ma'am — we let kref handle its business. it's giving delegation, it's giving trust the process, it's giving kref_put doing the heavy lifting while we sip our strawberry drink 🍓

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c — and whew the friend group here is HUGE, get comfy 🫶:

• 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_driver_remove_tty(9), tty_reopen(9), tty_init_dev(9), tty_save_termios(9), tty_flush_works(9), release_one_tty(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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fr fr go read the whole list, iykyk 💀 this is the tty cinematic universe and you're gonna need it.

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page — source lives in ./drivers/tty, dropped October 2026, and yes it's still called tty_kref_put(9). slay, go put that kref down gently bestie 🌈💜