set_bios_defaults(9)

💅 set_bios_defaults(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual era 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to set_bios_defaults(9), the little kernel function that hits the "restore factory settings" button on your BIOS ✨ it's short, it's sweet, it's giving one-job-and-she-does-it energy 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

set_bios_defaults — resets BIOS defaults, no cap 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int set_bios_defaults (u8 deftype );

that's the whole signature, babes — she takes one u8 and hands you back an int 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• deftype — the type of BIOS value reset to issue. yes literally, that's the whole job: you tell her which kind of reset, and she issues it 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Resets BIOS defaults ⭐ that's it, that's the vibe. she resets the BIOS defaults, and honestly? iconic. periodt 💜

ngl there's not a ton of prose here, so don't go looking for extra lore — this is the entire description, fr fr 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/biosattr-interface.c — go read the source if you wanna see her in her natural habitat 💖
• set_attribute(9) — her bestie, the sibling function, also slaying in the same file 🌸

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🧚 coming to you straight from the source line ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/de... (yes it's truncated like that, don't @ me 💀), dated October 2026 — catch you in the next man page, mwah 💋🎀