netdev_features_change(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 netdev_features_change(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's a tiny little function with main character energy and a huge friend group, so let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

netdev_features_change — the "hey everyone, my device changed its features" announcement function 💅

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void netdev_features_change (struct net_device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • dev — the device that's causing the notification 💖 yes, that's it, that's the whole argument list, and honestly? obsessed.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: you call netdev_features_change to indicate that a device has changed its features ✨ that's literally it. It's the "guess who got a glow-up" of kernel notifications — you're telling the world "this device's feature set is not the same as it was five minutes ago" 💅

No cap, that's the whole description. Short and iconic 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

This is the part where all of netdev_features_change's mutuals show up 😭 — the whole crew lives in the kernel file ./net/core/dev.c, and here they all are (every single one, fr fr, don't skip a single bestie):

like… the whole friend group showed up to the group chat at once 😭💀 every one of them is a real one, go say hi 🫶

annnd that's the page 🎀 this lil cutie lives in ./net/core, courtesy of the October 2026 era of the kernel docs — mwah, love u, bye bestie 💜✨

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