vmw_release_device_late(9)

🌸 vmw_release_device_late(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, that's the manual name, we're fancy now 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

vmw_release_device_late — the late part of fifo takedown, aka the second-half of the goodbye 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void vmw_release_device_late (struct vmw_private *dev_priv );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev_priv — pointer to the device private struct. that's it, that's the whole vibe, she just needs the device's private struct pointer 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is the last part of the command submission takedown, no cap. you call it when command submission is no longer needed — like, the party's over, everyone go home 🎀

and here's the tea: it may wait on pending fences. so it can literally sit there waiting. not me being patient 😭

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c — go read it, iykyk 👑
• vmw_dummy_query_bo_create(9)
• vmw_request_device_late(9)
• vmw_release_device_early(9)
• vmw_dma_select_mode(9)
• vmw_dma_masks(9)
• __vmw_svga_enable(9)
• vmw_svga_enable(9)
• __vmw_svga_disable(9)
• vmw_svga_disable(9)

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reminder bestie: late means LATE. if you're looking for the early part, that's vmw_release_device_early(9) — don't mix them up fr fr 🙈

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and that's the whole page! mwah 💋 this iconic little number lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026 ⭐ — periodt, see you in the next manpage 🧚‍♀️💖