tty_register_driver(9)

💖 tty_register_driver(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the tty_register_driver(9) page in the Kernel API Manual. This one is short and sweet: it's all about a tty driver registering itself. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tty_register_driver — register a tty driver 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the signature exactly as it appears, no cap:

int tty_register_driver (struct tty_driver *driver );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• driver — the driver you want to register, bestie. that's the whole argument.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

A tty driver calls this function to register itself. that's it — it's the self-registration moment, and it's giving main character energy for the driver 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the kernel file is ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c, and here is every single cross-reference, no skipping, iykyk:

• 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)
• 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_unregister_driver(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie! sourced from ./drivers/tty, dated October 2026, on the tty_register_driver(9) page in the Kernel API Manual. mwah 💋✨