tb_ctl_start(9)

✨ NAME ✨

tb_ctl_start — start/resume the control channel. That’s the whole plot, bestie: it’s the control-channel glow-up button ✨

Okay so this is the tb_ctl_start(9) page straight outta the Kernel API Manual, and it’s short, sweet, and lowkey iconic 🎀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Bestie, here’s the signature, literally character for character:

void tb_ctl_start (struct tb_ctl *ctl );

Yup: void return, one argument. Periodt 💅

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• ctl — control channel to start. That’s the only arg, and it’s giving main-character energy 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go read these too, iykyk 🫶

• Kernel file ./drivers/thunderbolt/ctl.c, struct tb_ctl(9)
• tb_cfg_request_alloc(9)
• tb_cfg_request_get(9)
• tb_cfg_request_put(9)
• tb_cfg_request(9)
• tb_cfg_request_cancel(9)
• tb_cfg_request_sync(9)
• tb_ctl_alloc(9)
• tb_ctl_free(9)
• tb_ctl_stop(9)
• tb_cfg_ack_notification(9)
• tb_cfg_ack_plug(9)
• tb_cfg_reset(9)
• tb_cfg_read_raw(9)
• tb_cfg_write_raw(9)
• tb_cfg_get_upstream_port(9)

This lil page is from ./drivers/thunderbolt, dated October 2026, and it’s the tb_ctl_start(9) entry in the Kernel API Manual. Bye bestie, slay your control channel 💖