vme_dma_free_attribute(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 vme_dma_free_attribute(9) 💖

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie — vme_dma_free_attribute(9), the little cleanup function that closes out your DMA list attribute era. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "small but mighty" ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vme_dma_free_attribute — literally frees a DMA list attribute. that's the whole job. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void vme_dma_free_attribute (struct vme_dma_attr *attributes );

bestie it returns void, meaning it gives you nothing back and that is exactly the point 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • attributes — pointer to the DMA list attribute. yes queen, hand over the pointer and let her go 🫶

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what does it do? it frees a VME DMA list attribute. that's it, that's the vibe.

here's the part you actually need to remember though: a VME DMA list attribute can be safely freed once vme_dma_list_add has returned. that's the green light 🟢 — before that? don't. the timing is the whole thing, iykyk.

lowkey the most important sentence on this entire page: free it after vme_dma_list_add returns. not before. periodt. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, no one left out 👑 — kernel file ./drivers/staging/vme_user/vme.c, plus:

and that's the page, bestie 🌈 this one lives in ./drivers/staging/vme_user, dated October 2026, and it goes by vme_dma_free_attribute(9) — now go free that attribute responsibly, mwah 💋💖

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