dev_change_carrier(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 dev_change_carrier(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this is the page for dev_change_carrier(9), and it is literally the shortest little guy in the whole dev_api family. no cap. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dev_change_carrier — change device carrier 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int dev_change_carrier (struct net_device *dev , bool new_carrier );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's compact and she knows it 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • dev — the device 👑 (the one whose carrier you're about to mess with)
  • new_carrier — the new value ⭐ (like, the carrier value you want it to have now)

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Change device carrier. fr fr, that's the whole description — it changes the device carrier, periodt. lowkey iconic how little it needs to say 🙈

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • 0 on success 🫶 slay
  • -errno on failure 😭 (you know the drill, the negative errno tells you what went wrong)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

it's giving family reunion — the whole squad lives in the kernel file ./net/core/dev_api.c and honestly they're all must-follows:

💀 reminder bestie: this page does not promise anything beyond 0 on success and -errno on failure. don't go inventing extra return values, iykyk.

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓💅 — this gem comes from ./net/core, dated October 2026, and it's filed under dev_change_carrier(9). mwah, go read the other dev_api pages now, ily 🧚💖

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