speedstep_init(9)

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual and this page is speedstep_init(9) — manual name folded in right at the top, exactly as requested, periodt 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

speedstep_init — initializes the SpeedStep CPUFreq driver

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int speedstep_init (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. Like, literally none, bestie 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This one initializes the SpeedStep support. That's the whole main-character job ✨

It returns -ENODEV on an unsupported BIOS, -EINVAL on problems during initiatization, and zero on success. So yeah: check your return value, bestie, it's giving important 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
• speedstep_smi_ownership(9)
• speedstep_smi_get_freqs(9)
• speedstep_set_state(9)
• speedstep_target(9)
• speedstep_exit(9)

cute lil sign-off: this page comes from ./drivers/cpufreq, dated October 2026 — source/version and date acknowledged, mwah 💋✨