profile_store(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, meet profile_store(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and its whole iconic job is literally: Set the profile for a class device. that’s the vibe. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

it’s giving this exact signature, no cap:

       ssize_t profile_store (struct device *dev , struct device_attribute
       *attr , const char *buf , size_t count );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — The device. main character energy, honestly.
• attr — The attribute.
• buf — The buffer to read from.
• count — The number of bytes to read.

🦋 RETURN 🦋

The number of bytes read — that’s the return value, periodt. ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c, plus these iconic little references — collect them all, bestie:

• _commmon_choices_show(9)
• _store_class_profile(9)
• _notify_class_profile(9)
• get_class_profile(9)
• name_show(9)
• choices_show(9)
• profile_show(9)
• _aggregate_choices(9)
• _remove_hidden_choices(9)
• platform_profile_choices_show(9)
• _aggregate_profiles(9)
• _store_and_notify(9)
• platform_profile_show(9)
• platform_profile_store(9)
• platform_profile_notify(9)
• platform_profile_cycle(9)
• platform_profile_register(9)
• platform_profile_remove(9)
• devm_platform_profile_register(9)

with love from ./drivers/acpi 🫶 — October 2026, Kernel API Manual edition — bye bestie, slay your profiles 💅🎀✨