devfreq_notifier_call(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 devfreq_notifier_call(9) 🌸

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, the kernel has its own manual and we're reading it 💅 this one's about devfreq_notifier_call.

✨ NAME ✨

devfreq_notifier_call — the little function whose whole job is to shout "hey!! the device frequency requirements changed!!" outside the devfreq framework 🫶 no cap, that's it, that's the gig.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int devfreq_notifier_call (struct notifier_block *nb , unsigned long type , void *devp );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • nb — the notifier_block, and it's supposed to be devfreq->nb 👑 that's the expected one, okay?
  • type — literally not used 🙈
  • devp — also not used 🙈 iconically doing nothing

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Called by a notifier that uses devfreq->nb. periodt ✨ it's the callback, it gets called, the frequency requirements have changed, we move on.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, all aboard the devfreq train 🚂 — and they all live in the kernel file ./drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:

ngl that's a long list but every single one of them is valid, don't @ me 💀

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓💜 — sourced from ./drivers/devfreq, dated October 2026, filed under devfreq_notifier_call(9) ✨ mwah 💋

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