tty_ldisc_release(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for tty_ldisc_release(9) — that's the manual name, and it's literally giving “we're shutting down the line discipline” 💅

• tty_ldisc_release — release line discipline

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tty_ldisc_release (struct tty_struct *tty );

That's the whole signature, no cap — copy it exactly, bestie. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tty — the tty being shut down (or one end of a pty pair). This is the main character of this function, fr fr. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This one gets called during the final close of a tty or a pty pair, so the line discpline layer can shut down. On exit, each tty's ldisc is NULL — periodt. 💀✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c

• tty_register_ldisc(9)
• tty_unregister_ldisc(9)
• tty_ldisc_get(9)
• tty_ldisc_put(9)
• tty_ldisc_ref_wait(9)
• tty_ldisc_ref(9)
• tty_ldisc_deref(9)
• tty_ldisc_flush(9)
• tty_set_termios_ldisc(9)
• tty_ldisc_open(9)
• tty_ldisc_close(9)
• tty_ldisc_failto(9)
• tty_ldisc_restore(9)
• tty_set_ldisc(9)
• tty_ldisc_kill(9)
• tty_reset_termios(9)
• tty_ldisc_reinit(9)
• tty_ldisc_hangup(9)
• tty_ldisc_setup(9)
• tty_ldisc_init(9)
• tty_ldisc_deinit(9)

🫶 that's the page, bestie. source/version: ./drivers/tty · date: October 2026. slay and stay hydrated. 💖