usb4_switch_check_wakes(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 usb4_switch_check_wakes — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🫶

okay so real talk, you're reading the usb4_switch_check_wakes(9) page and honestly? it's giving "small function, big job" energy. it lives in the Thunderbolt/USB4 corner of the kernel and it's way less scary than the name suggests, i promise 💖

✨ NAME ✨

usb4_switch_check_wakes — check for wakes and notify the PM core about them 💤➡️🔔

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void usb4_switch_check_wakes (struct tb_switch *sw );

literally that's it. no return value, no drama, no little int to check. it just goes and does the thing ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • sw — the Router whose wakes we're checking. yes bestie, that's the whole argument list, we love a one-argument icon 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it do? It checks the wakes that happened during suspend — like, during the whole nap arc 😴 — and then it notifies the PM core about them. that's the vibe. that's the whole plot 🫶

no cap, that's the entire description in the original too. short king behavior fr fr 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long — like, genuinely iconic levels of long. the source file for all this is the kernel file ./drivers/thunderbolt/usb4.c, and here's every single sibling function, in the original order, no skips, no cuts 😤✨

like… that's seventy-two references bestie 😭 she's thorough, she's organized, she's an overachiever and we stan 🧚✨

also psa: the directory ./drivers/thunderbolt is where all this lives, so if you ever get lost, that's home base 🏠

and that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 this little icon is brought to you by the source in ./drivers/thunderbolt, dated October 2026 — go forth and check those wakes, bestie, you got this 🎀💜

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