tty_release_struct(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

tty_release_struct — release a tty struct 💅

okay so picture this: you've got a tty struct and it's done, it's served its purpose, and now it needs to be released. That's literally the whole job. Bestie, this function is the closer. 🔥

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tty_release_struct (struct tty_struct *tty , int idx );

like, two things go in, nothing comes out (void, obviously — it's giving silent main character energy) 💜

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• tty — the tty device itself. the whole point tbh 🫶
• idx — index of the tty. yes it wants both. no you can't skip it 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it actually do? Performs the final steps to release and free a tty device. That's it, that's the vibe report. ✨

And the cutest way to think about it: it's roughly the reverse of tty_init_dev. Like, tty_init_dev is the glow-up montage at the start, and tty_release_struct is the part where she hands back the prom dress and goes home. Iconic in both directions. 🔥👑

ngl, the word "free" is right there in the description and it means exactly what it sounds like — this is the teardown. Don't go using that tty after. That's the whole reason the function exists, bestie. 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c — that's where this lives, 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(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)

like… that's a lot of friends. she's not alone in this file, periodt. 👑💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this one shipped from ./drivers/tty, dated October 2026, and it's called tty_release_struct(9) — go forth and release those structs responsibly, mwah 💋🎀