zl3073x_devm_alloc(9)

💅 zl3073x_devm_alloc(9) — from the Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the zl3073x_devm_alloc page, this is a function from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the moment a zl3073x device structure gets born 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

zl3073x_devm_alloc — allocates zl3073x device structure

like, that's the whole vibe: it makes the device struct, no cap 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct zl3073x_dev * zl3073x_devm_alloc (struct device *dev );

copy it exactly like that pls, character for character, she's iconic and we don't touch her 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — pointer to device structure ✨ that's the one and only thing you hand her

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Allocates the zl3073x device structure as device resource.

that's it, that's the whole tea 🍓 the allocation is tied to the device as a resource, so it's giving managed-device main character energy 👑

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• pointer to zl3073x device on success 🎉
• error pointer on error 😭

so like, always vibe check the return value before you dereference it fr fr — an error pointer is not a real device and it will not slay 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/dpll/zl3073x/devlink.c 👀

• zl3073x_devlink_info_get(9)
• zl3073x_devlink_flash_prepare(9)
• zl3073x_devlink_flash_finish(9)
• zl3073x_devlink_flash_update(9)
• zl3073x_devlink_register(9)

all the devlink besties, go read them next 🫶✨

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sign-off time 🎀 this little beauty lives in ./drivers/dpll/zl3073x, dated October 2026, and yes she's part of the Kernel API Manual because she's that girl 💜 go be obsessed, mwah 🧚‍♀️💅