rt2x00link_start_watchdog(9)

✨ rt2x00link_start_watchdog ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for rt2x00link_start_watchdog(9) — yes the name is a whole mouthful, yes it's iconic, no we're not changing it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rt2x00link_start_watchdog — literally just starts the periodic watchdog monitoring, that's the whole vibe 🐕✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void rt2x00link_start_watchdog (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev );

no return value, she just does things, periodt 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rt2x00dev — a pointer to struct rt2x00_dev. that's it. that's the whole parameter list. she's low maintenance like that 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea ☕: this function starts the watchdog periodic work. once it's going, that work keeps running periodically — like, on loop, no cap — until someone finally calls rt2x00link_stop_watchdog. so if you start it and never stop it, she's just gonna keep going forever, and that's on you fr fr 😭

ngl bestie, remember to call rt2x00link_stop_watchdog when you're done — the page literally says the work keeps executing until you do 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the file it lives in: Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.h — go read it, iykyk 📖

then the whole friend group of related functions, all of them, no gatekeeping:

• Queue handlers(9)
• rt2x00queue_alloc_rxskb(9)
• rt2x00queue_free_skb(9)
• rt2x00queue_align_frame(9)
• rt2x00queue_insert_l2pad(9)
• rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(9)
• rt2x00queue_update_beacon(9)
• rt2x00queue_update_beacon_locked(9)
• rt2x00queue_clear_beacon(9)
• rt2x00queue_index_inc(9)
• rt2x00queue_init_queues(9)
• rt2x00link_update_stats(9)
• rt2x00link_start_tuner(9)
• rt2x00link_stop_tuner(9)
• rt2x00link_reset_tuner(9)
• rt2x00link_stop_watchdog(9) ← the one that turns her off, bestie 💀
• rt2x00link_register(9)

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and that's the whole page, slay 🎉

source + version + date time, cute sign-off style: this one came from ./drivers/net/wireless/ralink/... and it's dated October 2026, all wrapped up under the rt2x00link_start_watchdog(9) name. eat it up, bye bestie 💖✨🎀