ubi_put_device(9)

💅 ubi_put_device(9) — from the Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to ubi_put_device(9) — this one's a little one-page icon in the kernel API manual, and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she does exactly one thing. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ubi_put_device — drop an UBI device reference. that's it. that's the whole job. you're releasing a reference you were holding, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ubi_put_device (struct ubi_device *ubi );

literally one line, zero drama, returns void (so like… nothing comes back, she just does) 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ubi — the UBI device description object. this is the device you're dropping a reference on, bestie. hand her over and let her go 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group shows up here, so let me introduce you:

• Kernel file ./drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
• struct mtd_dev_param(9)
• ubi_volume_notify(9)
• ubi_notify_all(9)
• ubi_enumerate_volumes(9)
• ubi_get_device(9)
• ubi_get_by_major(9)
• ubi_major2num(9)
• kill_volumes(9)
• uif_init(9)
• uif_close(9)
• ubi_free_volumes_from(9)
• ubi_free_all_volumes(9)
• ubi_free_internal_volumes(9)
• io_init(9)
• autoresize(9)
• ubi_attach_mtd_dev(9)
• ubi_detach_mtd_dev(9)
• open_mtd_by_chdev(9)
• open_mtd_device(9)
• bytes_str_to_int(9)
• ubi_mtd_param_parse(9)

like, that's the entire UBI mtd crew right there. iykyk 💀✨

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ngl, this page is giving "short and iconic" — no warnings, no exit statuses, no environment variables, just vibes and a reference count going down. periods. 🩷

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🧚‍♀️ this little beauty lives in ./drivers/mtd/ubi and the version we're reading is from October 2026 — so yeah, future-iconic fr fr 💜💫