sar_get_device_mode(9)

💅 sar_get_device_mode(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

Okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is sar_get_device_mode. It's giving "I ask the BIOS questions and it actually answers" energy, and honestly? iconic 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

sar_get_device_mode — extraction of information from BIOS via DSM calls 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

acpi_status sar_get_device_mode (struct platform_device *device );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• device — the ACPI device you're pulling the data from, no cap 💖

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So what does it do? It retrieves the current device mode information from the BIOS. That's it, that's the vibe — you hand it a device, it goes and gets the mode info out of the BIOS. Lowkey simple, highkey useful 🔥

⭐ RETURN ⭐

• AE_OK — slay, it worked, success 💅
• AE_ERROR — not slay, something went wrong 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/x86/intel/int1092/intel_sar.c — go read it, iykyk 👑
• get_int_value(9)
• update_sar_data(9)
• parse_package(9)

And that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it up 🍓 Before you go: this lil beauty comes from that kernel source path ./drivers/platform/x86/intel/i..., dated October 2026 — so go forth, call your DSM, and get that device mode fr fr 💜🧚✨