unregister_sound_mixer(9)

💖 unregister_sound_mixer(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to unregister_sound_mixer(9) — that's the page title, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual (very official, very slay). this one's short and sweet, so let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

unregister_sound_mixer — unregister a mixer. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void unregister_sound_mixer (int unit );

literally one function, one int, returns nothing (void, so don't go looking for a return value, bestie 💅).

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• unit — the unit number to allocate 🙈 (yes, the manpage says "allocate" right there — we're just reporting the facts, no cap).

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea ☕: this function releases a sound device that was allocated with register_sound_mixer. the unit you pass in is the return value from the register function — like, the register function hands you the ticket, and you hand the ticket back here to give up the seat 🎟️✨

match them up correctly or it's giving chaos, okay? 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./sound/sound_core.c, plus all these icon queens:

• register_sound_special_device(9)
• register_sound_mixer(9)
• register_sound_dsp(9)
• unregister_sound_special(9)
• unregister_sound_dsp(9)

go read them, they're literally family 👑

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this came from the kernel file ./sound, dated October 2026, and the page is unregister_sound_mixer(9). go forth and unregister responsibly, bestie 🌈⭐