MAINBUS(4)

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version 11.0 Β· 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 MAINBUS(4) 🌸

okay so bestie, this one's from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, section 4 β€” it's a whole ✨device manual page✨ and it is short but it's lowkey foundational, iykyk πŸ’…


πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

mainbus β€” the top level pseudo β€œbus”, she's giving main character energy at the very root of everything πŸ‘‘


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

mainbus0 at root
instance at mainbus0

literally that's it, that's the whole vibe πŸ¦‹


✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so mainbus is not a real bus β€” no cap, she's a pseudo bus πŸ™ˆ but that's the point! she serves as the top level device that all the other busses and drivers attach to 🌈 like she's the group chat admin and everyone else is a member, fr fr.

everything hangs off her. iconic behavior honestly πŸ’œ


🫢 SEE ALSO 🫢


go read those if you wanna actually understand the whole autoconfiguration situation, bestie β€” they ate πŸ’…

and that's the page!! πŸŽ€ shoutout to Debian, dated May 2, 2000 β€” a vintage queen from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, slaying since forever β­πŸ’–

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from