IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT(9)

✨ IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT(9) ✨

okay so this is straight out of the Kernel API Manual bestie, and it's short but it matters, so pay attention 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT — the floating-point data format, and yes it's exactly what it sounds like 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. no args, no drama, no cap 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so basically, IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT is the value you drop into iio_scan_type.format when the data you're scanning is made of IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. like, actual floats. decimals. the squishy ones. 🌈

it's giving "just a constant, but make it iconic" — you don't call it, you just use it to tell everyone what kind of data is coming through. iykyk 🧚

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay this list is LONG bestie, like genuinely long, but every single one of these is part of the family so we're listing them all, no skipping, periodt 👑

• the kernel file ./include/linux/iio/iio.h — the source of truth, go look at it 🫶
• struct iio_chan_spec_ext_info(9)
• struct iio_enum(9)
• IIO_ENUM(9)
• IIO_ENUM_AVAILABLE(9)
• struct iio_mount_matrix(9)
• IIO_MOUNT_MATRIX(9)
• struct iio_event_spec(9)
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9) — the signed-int sibling, iconic
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_UNSIGNED_INT(9) — and the unsigned one, also iconic
• struct iio_scan_type(9)
• struct iio_chan_spec(9)
• iio_channel_has_info(9)
• iio_channel_has_available(9)
• struct iio_info(9)
• struct iio_buffer_setup_ops(9)
• struct iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_register(9)
• devm_iio_device_register(9)
• iio_device_claim_direct(9)
• iio_device_release_direct(9)
• iio_device_try_claim_buffer_mode(9)
• iio_device_release_buffer_mode(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_DIRECT_MODE(9)
• IIO_DEV_ACQUIRE_FAILED(9)
• IIO_DEV_GUARD_CURRENT_MODE(9)
• iio_device_put(9)
• dev_to_iio_dev(9)
• iio_device_get(9)
• iio_device_set_parent(9)
• iio_device_set_drvdata(9)
• iio_device_get_drvdata(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS(9)
• IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION(9)
• iio_get_debugfs_dentry(9)
• iio_device_suspend_triggering(9)
• iio_device_resume_triggering(9)
• iio_get_current_scan_type(9)
• iio_get_masklength(9)
• iio_for_each_active_channel(9)
• IIO_DEGREE_TO_RAD(9)
• IIO_RAD_TO_DEGREE(9)
• IIO_G_TO_M_S_2(9)
• IIO_M_S_2_TO_G(9)

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ngl there's nothing dangerous here, it's literally just a format constant. but read your sibling pages anyway, they're the main characters of their own stories 🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 source lives at ./include/linux/iio, this edition is dated October 2026, and it's filed under the Kernel API Manual. go forth and float, you got this 💖✨🎀💅