pm_generic_suspend(9)

💖 pm_generic_suspend 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to this lil page from the Kernel API Manual — it's pm_generic_suspend(9), and it's giving short-and-useful main character energy. no cap, it's tiny, but every detail ate. 🔥

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pm_generic_suspend — generic suspend callback for subsystems. that's the whole vibe: it's the generic suspend callback, for subsystems, periodt. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int pm_generic_suspend (struct device *dev );

not me keeping it exactly character-for-character so your compiler doesn't side-eye us 😭 keep that spacing, bestie.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device to suspend. that's it, that's the argument, and honestly? iconic. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file: ./drivers/base/power/generic_ops.c — yes, the actual file, copy it exactly, iykyk. 📁

and here's the whole friend group of related calls, all listed so you can hop around:

• pm_generic_runtime_suspend(9)
• pm_generic_runtime_resume(9)
• pm_generic_prepare(9)
• pm_generic_suspend_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_suspend_late(9)
• pm_generic_freeze_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_freeze(9)
• pm_generic_poweroff_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_poweroff_late(9)
• pm_generic_poweroff(9)
• pm_generic_thaw_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_thaw(9)
• pm_generic_resume_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_resume_early(9)
• pm_generic_resume(9)
• pm_generic_restore_noirq(9)
• pm_generic_restore_early(9)
• pm_generic_restore(9)
• pm_generic_complete(9)

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mwah 💋 that's the page! source/version is ./drivers/base/power, date is October 2026, and the manual page is pm_generic_suspend(9) — bye bestie, go suspend something generically 🧚💜