tty_unregister_driver(9)
okay so bestie, we're looking at tty_unregister_driver(9) straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving "one job, unregister a tty driver" π
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πΈ NAME πΈ
tty_unregister_driver β unregister a tty driver π
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
void tty_unregister_driver (struct tty_driver *driver );
π ARGUMENTS π
driverβ the driver you're unregistering, periodt π
π DESCRIPTION π
Called by a tty driver to unregister itself. That's the whole vibe: the driver handles its own unregistration, no cap π«Ά
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c is the home base, and here's the whole friend group:
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_register_driver(9)
mwah π this cutie is sourced from ./drivers/tty, dated October 2026, and it's the tty_unregister_driver(9) page β slay, go read the whole tty cinematic universe ππ
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixpkgs unstable: linux-manual 7.3.1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms