netif_carrier_off(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for netif_carrier_off(9) — the function that is literally here to clear carrier, bestie. 💅✨

📡 SYNOPSIS 📡

void netif_carrier_off (struct net_device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the network device. that's it, that's the argument 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The device has detected loss of carrier — that's the whole description, bestie 😭. loss of carrier is the main event here, no cap.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• Kernel file ./net/sched/sch_generic.c
• netif_carrier_on(9)
• netif_carrier_event(9)
• dev_deactivate_many(9)
• psched_ratecfg_precompute__(9)

and that's the page, bestie 🫶💖 — it comes from source/version ./net/sched, dated October 2026, and it's literally the netif_carrier_off(9) manual page. periodt. ✨