tty_port_init(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ tty_port_init(9) ✨

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today bestie, and the star of the show is tty_port_init 💅 buckle up.

🌸 NAME 🌸

tty_port_init — initialize tty_port

like, it initializes a tty_port. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void tty_port_init (struct tty_port *port );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • port — the tty_port you wanna initialize. that's it. that's the argument. she's simple, she's iconic 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So tty_port_init initializes the state of struct tty_port ✨ like it sets up the whole situation so your port is ready to be a main character.

But listen — this is the important part — once a port has been initialized using this function, you have to destroy the port by tty_port_destroy. you can't just leave it there, that's giving unfinished business 😭

and you've got options on how to do the destroying, bestie:

  • indirectly, by using tty_port refcounting (tty_port_put) — the chill, let-the-refcount-handle-it route 💅
  • directly, if refcounting is not used — the do-it-yourself route 🫡

either way, the port gets destroyed. no skipping this step. periodt.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_port.c — go read the source, iykyk 📖 and while you're at it, here's the whole friend group:

like, the whole squad. go say hi 👋💜

anyway that's the page 🧚 this one lives in ./drivers/tty and it's dated October 2026, and the page is literally called tty_port_init(9) — slay, go initialize something responsibly 🌈⭐

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