usb_remove_hcd(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this page is usb_remove_hcd(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about shutdown processing for generic HCDs. that's the whole name vibe, bestie. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void usb_remove_hcd (struct usb_hcd *hcd );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hcd — the usb_hcd structure to remove. that's it, just hand over the usb_hcd struct. 🫶

💅 CONTEXT 💅

task context, might sleep. so yeah: task context, and it might sleep — noted, bestie. 😴

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It disconnects the root hub, then reverses the effects of usb_add_hcd, invoking the HCD's stop method. no cap, that's the whole flow. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/usb/core/hcd.c — and then the whole friend group:

• ascii2desc(9)
• rh_string(9)
• usb_bus_init(9)
• usb_register_bus(9)
• usb_deregister_bus(9)
• register_root_hub(9)
• usb_calc_bus_time(9)
• usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep(9)
• usb_hcd_check_unlink_urb(9)
• usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep(9)
• usb_hcd_giveback_urb(9)
• usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth(9)
• usb_hcd_reset_endpoint(9)
• usb_alloc_streams(9)
• usb_free_streams(9)
• usb_hcd_resume_root_hub(9)
• usb_bus_start_enum(9)
• usb_hcd_irq(9)
• usb_hc_died(9)
• usb_create_shared_hcd(9)
• usb_create_hcd(9)
• usb_stop_hcd(9)
• usb_add_hcd(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 source/version: ./drivers/usb/core · date: October 2026 · page: usb_remove_hcd(9) — periodt. 🎀