typec_set_data_role(9)

💅 typec_set_data_role — the manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, you found typec_set_data_role(9) — it's a Linux kernel API manual page, and honestly? it's short and sweet. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

typec_set_data_role — report a data role change, periodt 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void typec_set_data_role (struct typec_port *port , enum typec_data_role
role );

that's the whole signature, character for character, don't come for me 😭 — yes there's a space before the comma, it's in the original, leave her alone 💀

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• port — the USB Type-C Port where the role got changed 👑 like, this is the port that's going through it
• role — the new data role, the fresh identity, the main character energy ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this routine is the one port drivers use to report data role changes. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "messenger, not decision-maker" — you're just telling the kernel "hey bestie, the data role changed" 🧚

no extra lore, no hidden options, no gotchas. the manpage is literally one sentence and honestly? iconic for that 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/usb/typec/class.c — and here's the full squad of related calls, all of them, zero skipped, because we don't do that here 💖

• typec_altmode_update_active(9)
• typec_altmode2port(9)
• typec_altmode_set_ops(9)
• typec_unregister_altmode(9)
• typec_partner_set_usb_mode(9)
• typec_partner_set_identity(9)
• typec_partner_set_pd_revision(9)
• typec_partner_set_usb_power_delivery(9)
• typec_partner_set_num_altmodes(9)
• typec_partner_register_altmode(9)
• typec_partner_set_svdm_version(9)
• typec_partner_usb_power_delivery_register(9)
• typec_register_partner(9)
• typec_unregister_partner(9)
• typec_plug_set_num_altmodes(9)
• typec_plug_register_altmode(9)
• typec_register_plug(9)
• typec_unregister_plug(9)
• typec_cable_get(9)
• typec_cable_put(9)
• typec_cable_is_active(9)
• typec_cable_altmode_unsupported(9)
• typec_cable_set_identity(9)
• typec_register_cable(9)
• typec_unregister_cable(9)
• typec_port_set_usb_mode(9)
• typec_port_set_usb_power_delivery(9)
• typec_get_data_role(9)
• typec_set_pwr_role(9)
• typec_set_vconn_role(9)
• typec_set_pwr_opmode(9)
• typec_find_pwr_opmode(9)
• typec_find_orientation(9)
• typec_find_port_power_role(9)
• typec_find_power_role(9)
• typec_find_port_data_role(9)
• typec_set_orientation(9)
• typec_get_orientation(9)
• typec_set_mode(9)
• typec_get_negotiated_svdm_version(9)
• typec_get_cable_svdm_version(9)
• typec_cable_set_svdm_version(9)
• typec_get_drvdata(9)
• typec_port_register_altmode(9)
• typec_port_register_cable_ops(9)
• typec_register_port(9)
• typec_unregister_port(9)

like, that's a lot of friends. she's well-connected 💀✨

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ngl there are no warnings, no exit statuses, no env vars, no bugs listed on this one — it's just a clean little reporting function. savour it 🍓

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and that's the tea ☕ this page comes out of ./drivers/usb/typec and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, future vibes, we stay ahead of the curve 💜 bye bestie, go report those data role changes responsibly 🎀