ENUM NBCON_PRIO(9)

💅 enum nbcon_prio(9)

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — it's enum nbcon_prio, and it's literally the console owner priority for nbcon consoles 🎀 so if that's your vibe, keep reading, iykyk.

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✨ NAME ✨

enum nbcon_prio — console owner priority for nbcon consoles. that's it, that's the whole thing, and it ate 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum nbcon_prio {
    NBCON_PRIO_NONE ,
    NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL ,
    NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY ,
    NBCON_PRIO_PANIC ,
    NBCON_PRIO_MAX

};

like, look at her. five whole constants, living their best lives 💖

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🦋 Constants 🦋

okay so here's the cast of characters, no cap:

• NBCON_PRIO_NONE — unused 🫥 literally just sitting there, not doing anything, respecting the vibe.
• NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL — normal (non-emergency) usage 🧚 the every day, nothing's on fire, we're just vibing priority.
• NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY — emergency output (WARN/OOPS...) 😭 the "omg something went wrong" tier. it's giving chaos.
• NBCON_PRIO_PANIC — panic output 💀 the main character of bad days. the whole system is going down and this is the priority that shows up.
• NBCON_PRIO_MAX — the number of priority levels 🔢 not an actual level, it's the count. she's the boundary, the icon, the limit.

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🔥 Description 🔥

so here's the tea ☕ — a higher priority context can takeover the console when it is in the safe state. yes, takeover. main character energy fr fr 👑

and the final attempt to flush consoles in panic can be allowed to do so even in an unsafe state — the manpage literally says (Hope and pray) 🙏😭 which is honestly the most honest thing in kernel documentation. ngl, iconic.

⚠️ bestie, if you're in the "unsafe state" branch here, just know that the official strategy is hope and prayer. i don't make the rules, i just read the header file.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, i'm obsessed with this reading list 🍓:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/console.h
• struct consw(9)
• enum cons_flags(9)
• struct nbcon_state(9)
• struct nbcon_context(9)
• struct nbcon_write_context(9)
• struct console(9)
• console_srcu_read_flags(9)
• console_srcu_write_flags(9)
• for_each_console_srcu(9)
• for_each_console(9)

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okay that's the whole page, you're welcome 💖 this one lives in ./include/linux, from the October 2026 era of the docs — slay, bye babe 👑✨🎀