IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9)

💅 IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9) — signed integer data format ✨

okay so this is a page out of the Kernel API Manual (the (9) section, bestie — kernel internals only, no userland shenanigans) 💖 and it's about exactly one thing, but she's an iconic one thing. Let's get into it.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT — literally the signed integer data format. that's the whole vibe. that's the entire job. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT

no arguments, no parens, no drama — she just exists as a symbol, standing there looking gorgeous 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT is a value for the iio_scan_type.format field, and she's specifically the one for signed integers.

and bc the kernel does NOT do "eh, close enough," it's two's complement — like, that's the encoding, that's the whole bit-level personality 🧚 no cap, that's it, that's the entire description, and honestly? she ate. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay babes, buckle in, this list is long — the IIO docs link to each other like it's a group chat and everyone's in it 😭 but every single one matters, so here's the full squad, no one gets left on read 💜

• the kernel file ./include/linux/iio/iio.h — the home base, the mothership 🏠
• 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_UNSIGNED_INT(9) — her unsigned sister, love her 💖
• IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_FLOAT(9) — the floaty one 🦋
• struct iio_scan_type(9) — the struct that iio_scan_type.format lives in, iykyk
• 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 the whole IIO subsystem is giving "one big happy family" and this page is just one little cousin showing up to the reunion 🌈

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 sourced from ./include/linux/iio, dated October 2026, and she's filed under IIO_SCAN_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT(9) — signed ints forever, mwah 💋✨💖