DEVICE_DETACH(9)

DEVICE_DETACH9

Detach a device

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/bus.h>

int

DEVICE_DETACH(device_t dev);

Overview

Detach a device. This can be called if the user is replacing the driver software or if a device is about to be physically removed from the system.

The method should deallocate any system resources allocated during the DEVICE_ATTACH(9) method and reset the hardware to a sane state (i.e., disable interrupts etc.)

Return values

Zero is returned on success, otherwise an appropriate error is returned.

Releases

77 releases since FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE; the text changed 44 times.

  1. 3.0–3.1
  2. 3.2
  3. 3.3–3.5.1
  4. 4.0–4.2
  5. 4.3
  6. 4.4
  7. 4.5–4.11
  8. 5.0–5.1
  9. 5.2–5.2.1
  10. 5.3
  11. 5.4–5.5
  12. 6.0–6.3
  13. 6.4
  14. 7.0
  15. 7.1
  16. 7.2
  17. 7.3
  18. 7.4
  19. 8.0
  20. 8.1
  21. 8.2
  22. 8.3
  23. 8.4
  24. 9.0
  25. 9.1
  26. 9.2
  27. 9.3
  28. 10.0
  29. 10.1
  30. 10.2
  31. 10.3
  32. 10.4
  33. 11.0
  34. 11.1
  35. 11.2
  36. 11.3
  37. 11.4
  38. 12.0
  39. 12.1
  40. 12.2
  41. 12.3
  42. 12.4
  43. 13.0–13.2
  44. 13.3–14.3
  45. 14.4–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.