vga_switcher...ister_client(9)

💖 NAME 💖

vga_switcheroo_unregister_client — the "okay bestie, you're done here" function, aka unregister client 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void vga_switcheroo_unregister_client (struct pci_dev *pdev );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• pdev — the client pci device 💻 like, the actual GPU-ish thing you're kicking out of the club

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this is the unregister era 🫶 It unregisters the client. That's the whole vibe.

And bestie, listen — if this client happens to be a vga client (GPU), then this bad boy disables vga_switcheroo entirely 😭 like full shutdown of the whole switcheroo situation, not just a soft goodbye. No cap. 💅

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c Overview(9)
• struct vga_switcheroo_client(9)
• struct vgasr_priv(9)
• vga_switcheroo_register_handler(9)
• vga_switcheroo_unregister_handler(9)
• vga_switcheroo_handler_flags(9)
• vga_switcheroo_register_client(9)
• vga_switcheroo_register_audio_client(9)
• vga_switcheroo_client_probe_defer(9)
• vga_switcheroo_get_client_state(9)
• vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(9)
• vga_switcheroo_lock_ddc(9)
• vga_switcheroo_unlock_ddc(9)
• Manual switching and manual power control(9)
• vga_switcheroo_process_delayed_switch(9)
• Driver power control(9)
• vga_switcheroo_init_domain_pm_ops(9)

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ this icon lives over in ./drivers/gpu/vga, it's dated October 2026, and it's serving Kernel API Manual energy from the vga_switcher...ister_client(9) chapter — periodt, go read the source bestie 🫶💖