boot_override_clock(9)

🎀 boot_override_clock(9) 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, bestie. this page is literally all about boot_override_clock, and it’s giving compatibility layer for deprecated boot option energy. no cap ✨

💖 NAME 💖

• boot_override_clock — compatibility layer for deprecated boot option. yes, that’s the whole name vibe 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int boot_override_clock (char* str );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• str — the override name. that’s it, that’s the argument, bestie 💅

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

DEPRECATED! like, for real, this is the deprecated one 😭

It takes a clock= boot argument and uses it as the clocksource override name. periodt. that’s the compatibility-layer job.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole clocksource friend group, plus the kernel file that lives at ./kernel/time/clocksource.c:

• Kernel file ./kernel/time/clocksource.c
• clocks_calc_mult_shift(9)
• clocksource_mark_unstable(9)
• clocksource_suspend_select(9)
• clocksource_start_suspend_timing(9)
• clocksource_stop_suspend_timing(9)
• clocksource_suspend(9)
• clocksource_resume(9)
• clocksource_touch_watchdog(9)
• clocksource_max_adjustment(9)
• clocks_calc_max_nsecs(9)
• clocksource_update_max_deferment(9)
• clocksource_select(9)
• __clocksource_update_freq_scale(9)
• __clocksource_register_scale(9)
• clocksource_unregister(9)
• current_clocksource_show(9)
• current_clocksource_store(9)
• unbind_clocksource_store(9)
• available_clocksource_show(9)
• boot_override_clocksource(9)

signing off from ./kernel/time on October 2026 — boot_override_clock(9) out, slay 💅✨