__bond_opt_set_notify(9)

✨ __bond_opt_set_notify(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and bestie, it's a good one — it's all about setting a bonding option and then telling everyone about it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

__bond_opt_set_notify — set a bonding option, no cap 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int __bond_opt_set_notify (struct bonding *bond , unsigned int option ,
struct bond_opt_value *val );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• bond — the target bond device, like the main character of this whole operation 👑
• option — the option you're setting, i.e. which thing you're changing
• val — the value you're setting it to, the actual vibe you're giving that option ✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the tea: this function is what you call to change the bond's option value and trigger a notification off to user space at the same time. Two birds, one slay. 🫶

It's flexible like that — you can use it for both enabling/changing an option and for disabling it. Turning things on, turning things off, whatever, it handles it.

⚠️ but fr fr, listen: RTNL lock must be obtained before calling this function. Not optional, bestie. Get that lock first or it's giving chaos. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c, plus the whole friend group:

• bond_opt_parse(9)
• __bond_opt_set(9)
• bond_opt_tryset_rtnl(9)
• bond_opt_get(9)
• slave_set_ns_maddrs(9)
• slave_set_ns_maddr(9)

and that's the page!! 🎀 mwah 💋 this one lives in ./drivers/net/bonding, dated October 2026 — bye bestie, go get that RTNL lock first 💜🧚