usb_deregist...evice_driver(9)

💅 usb_deregister_device_driver — kernel api manual, section 9 🎀

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel api manual (section 9), and today's main character is usb_deregister_device_driver. yes that's the whole name, she's long, she's iconic, she ate 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

usb_deregister_device_driver — the girl who unregisters a USB device driver (and like… not an interface driver, okay? that distinction matters, iykyk 🦋)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void usb_deregister_device_driver (struct usb_device_driver *udriver );

that's it. that's the whole call. copy it exactly, don't get cute with the spacing 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• udriver — the USB operations of the device driver you're unregistering. like, the ops struct of the driver that's getting evicted ✨

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🧚 CONTEXT 🧚

must be able to sleep 😴

fr fr, do not call this from a context where sleeping is off-limits. she needs her nap time. no cap.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Unlinks the specified driver from the internal USB driver list. that's the whole vibe — driver out, list updated, done. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./drivers/usb/core/driver.c — and honestly the whole friend group is here:

• usb_driver_claim_interface(9)
• usb_driver_release_interface(9)
• usb_match_id(9)
• usb_register_device_driver(9)
• usb_register_driver(9)
• usb_deregister(9)
• usb_suspend_both(9)
• usb_resume_both(9)
• usb_enable_autosuspend(9)
• usb_disable_autosuspend(9)
• usb_autosuspend_device(9)
• usb_autoresume_device(9)
• usb_autopm_put_interface(9)
• usb_autopm_put_interface_async(9)
• usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend(9)
• usb_autopm_get_interface(9)
• usb_autopm_get_interface_async(9)
• usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(9)

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so yeah, that's the page 💖 it lives in ./drivers/usb/core, dated October 2026, and it's giving "small function, big responsibilities" energy. go unregister responsibly, bestie 👑⭐