PLIST_HEAD(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 PLIST_HEAD(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to PLIST_HEAD(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic for it — no cap, it's a one-job macro and it does that job flawlessly 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

PLIST_HEAD — declare and init plist_head

like, that's it, that's the whole personality 💖 it declares the thing AND inits the thing, one stop shop, we love an efficient queen 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

PLIST_HEAD (head );

yes the spacing is a little cursed, no we are not fixing it, it's giving "written at 3am and shipped anyway" 💀 copy it exactly, bestie, character for character 🙈

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • head — the name you're giving to your struct plist_head variable 🫶 that's the whole assignment: pick a name, that name becomes your variable. main character naming energy, your call, go off 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole plist fam is linked up below, and just so we're clear, these all live in the kernel file ./include/linux/plist.h 📁✨

that's eighteen entries of pure plist excellence, go read them all, iykyk 💅🔥

lowkey a whole vibe check: this page literally only declares and inits. no hidden lore, no deprecated drama, no danger zone. just vibes and a macro 🧚‍♀️

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 this lil beauty comes to you from source ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it goes by PLIST_HEAD(9) — stan a consistent footer, periodt 💜💖🎀

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