dev_monitor(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 dev_monitor — it's the kernel API manual page, bestie ✨

okay so real quick before we get into it: this is the dev_monitor(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's a whole vibe. tiny little function, enormous SEE ALSO section, we love that for us 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dev_monitor — periodic monitoring 💖

like, it monitors stuff. periodically. icon behaviour honestly 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void dev_monitor (struct timer_list *t );

that's it. that's the whole signature. so clean, so minimal, main character energy fr fr 🌸

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • t — a timer_list with a network device pointer tucked up inside it. yes bestie, the timer list is containing the network device pointer, that's the whole situation 🫶

💀 DESCRIPTION 💀

so basically this routine gets run in a kernel timer, and its whole job is to monitor the network device 💅 that's it, that's the gig. it's the periodic-monitoring girlie. she shows up on a timer, she checks on the network device, she leaves. no cap ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay babe, sit down, because this list is long and I need you to respect it 😭 the original says to hit up the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c, and then there's this whole extended family of functions and structs, all (9):

bestie I am not joking when I say read them all. every single one is here, nobody got left out, the group chat is intact 💜

that's the whole page, bestie — dev_monitor(9) keeping an eye on the network device on a timer, and roughly a thousand friends in SEE ALSO 🌈 this one lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel, dated October 2026, and that's the tea ☕💅 slay, go read the ksz884x source, mwah 🫶✨

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