parport_set_timeout(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie 💖 this page is parport_set_timeout(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and the name is literally doing the most: parport_set_timeout — set the inactivity timeout for a device. no cap, that's the whole name vibe 💅.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

long parport_set_timeout (struct pardevice *dev , long inactivity );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• dev — device on a port. literally the device we're setting the timeout for 🫶.
• inactivity — inactivity timeout (in jiffies). yes, jiffies, the kernel's lil time unit ✨.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This sets the inactivity timeout for a particular device on a port. it's giving "custom timeout just for you" energy 💖.

This affects functions like parport_wait_peripheral. highkey important if you're hanging around waiting on peripherals 👀.

The special value 0 means not to call schedule while dealing with this device. so like, zero means no scheduling calls for this device — noted, bestie 📝.

The return value is the previous inactivity timeout. so you get the old timeout back, like a receipt for the vibe before your change 🧾.

Any callers of parport_wait_event for this device are woken up. yep, they get the little "hey wake up" nudge, and that's on periodt 🔥.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/parport/ieee1284.c
• parport_wait_event(9)
• parport_poll_peripheral(9)
• parport_wait_peripheral(9)
• parport_negotiate(9)
• parport_write(9)
• parport_read(9)

that's the whole page, bestie 💖 — source/version: ./drivers/parport, date: October 2026. catch u later, and remember: set ur timeouts responsibly 💅✨