pdcs_timer_read(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 pdcs_timer_read(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the pdcs_timer_read(9) page, straight out of the big official Kernel API Manual 👑. it's a tiny little read function and honestly it's giving "quiet luxury" — no drama, just vibes and a number. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdcs_timer_read — Stable Storage timer count output (in seconds). periodt, that's the whole job 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t pdcs_timer_read (struct kobject *kobj , struct kobj_attribute
*attr , char *buf );

that's the signature, and yes it's spelled exactly like that, don't come for me 😭 — ssize_t return, three args, iconic.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • kobj — The kobject used to share data with userspace. lowkey the go-between 💫
  • attr — The kobject attributes. the whole personality of the thing ngl
  • buf — The output buffer to write to. this is where the answer goes, bestie, we're writing into buf 📝

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🍓: the value of the timer field correponds to a number of seconds in powers of 2. that's it. that's the whole description. no cap, it's a short one and we love that for us 💜

like, the number you get back isn't just "some seconds" — it's seconds expressed as a power of 2. so clock that correctly 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie the SEE ALSO section is long, grab a snack 🍫. the kernel file for all of this lives at ./drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c, and these are the siblings/friends-of-the-family you should also go read:

go read them all, i'll wait 💅✨

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 — this one lives under ./drivers/parisc and it's dated October 2026, so yeah, future girlie energy 🧚⭐ bye bestie, you ate this one 🔥👑

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