alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9)

✨ alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9) ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one is a tiny little function but it's lowkey important, iykyk 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

alarmtimer_get_rtcdev — returns the selected rtcdevice 💖

like, the whole job. one line. she's concise. we respect it.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct rtc_device * alarmtimer_get_rtcdev (void );

that's it, that's the whole signature. look at her go 💅

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• void — no arguments. none. zero. the void is voiding 🫶

ngl it's kind of iconic that there's an arguments section for literally no arguments, but we keep it because documentation is documentation, periodt.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what does she actually do? she returns the rtc device to use for wakealarms 🔥

that's the whole vibe. alarmtimer_get_rtcdev hands you back the rtc device that's been picked out for wakealarms — the alarm's main character device, fr fr 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

this is the part where the page goes absolutely feral and lists the entire friend group 😭💜 all of these live in the kernel file ./kernel/time/alarmtimer.c:

• struct alarm_base(9)
• alarmtimer_enqueue(9)
• alarmtimer_dequeue(9)
• alarmtimer_fired(9)
• alarmtimer_suspend(9)
• alarm_init(9)
• alarm_start_timer(9)
• alarm_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_cancel(9)
• clock2alarm(9)
• alarm_handle_timer(9)
• alarm_timer_rearm(9)
• alarm_timer_forward(9)
• alarm_timer_remaining(9)
• alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_timer_wait_running(9)
• alarm_timer_arm(9)
• alarm_clock_getres(9)
• alarm_clock_get_timespec(9)
• alarm_clock_get_ktime(9)
• alarm_timer_create(9)
• alarmtimer_nsleep_wakeup(9)
• alarmtimer_do_nsleep(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep_restart(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep(9)
• alarmtimer_init(9)

like okayyy, that's a whole squad 😳✨ go read them too, they're all 🧚 slay 🧚

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and that's the page, bestie!! you ate that. no cap. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶 go forth and get that rtc device 👑

(this one's from ./kernel/time, dated October 2026, and it's alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9) — mwah 💜)