ab8500_charger_ac_work(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ab8500_charger_ac_work(9) 💖

okay so you're reading the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the star of the show is ab8500_charger_ac_work — say that five times fast, i swear 😭 she's a kernel function and she's booked, busy, and about to check on your main charger. let's get into it bestie 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ab8500_charger_ac_work — the work item that gets and sets the main charger's status 🎀

like, she literally goes and finds out what's up with the main charger and then sets it. dual threat. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ab8500_charger_ac_work (struct work_struct *work );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. returns nothing (it's void, she gives nothing back and honestly? iconic) and takes one single pointer. minimal. clean. slay ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • work — pointer to the work_struct structure 🧚 no cap, this is the work item structure she's attached to, and she wants that pointer. just hand it over bestie.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically this is a work queue function — like the queue at your fave café but for kernel work instead of iced matcha 🍓 — and its whole job is checking the main charger status. that's the assignment. she checks it. she's good at it. periodt.

lowkey reminder that she's a void function taking a struct work_struct *work — that's the whole signature, don't come for her with extra args 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you're obsessed with this one (and you should be), there's a whole friend group. the kernel file lives at ./drivers/power/supply/ab8500_charger.c — go say hi 💖. and then there's:

like. that's the whole extended universe right there. iykyk 💀🔥 go read all of them, no skipping, i'll know 🙈

okay bye bestie, ily, go check that main charger status 💜

and for the receipts: this came out of ./drivers/power/supply, dated October 2026, and the version tag is just the function's own name, ab8500_charger_ac_work(9) — cute, consistent, on brand 🎀✨

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