__video_devi...ipeline_stop(9)

💅 __video_devi...ipeline_stop(9) — like, the whole vibe ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the kernel has a manual, and yes, it's iconic) 🎀 the title is literally __video_devi...ipeline_stop(9) — truncated and everything, she's a mystery 💜 but we move.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

__video_device_pipeline_stop — marks a pipeline as not streaming 🛑 like, the stream is over, the party's done, everybody go home ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void __video_device_pipeline_stop (struct video_device *vdev );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• vdev — the starting video device. that's the one you hand over, bestie 🫶

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

📌 note: this is the non-locking version of media_pipeline_stop — no cap, it does not do the locking for you, so don't come crying to me if your locks aren't handled 🙈

the video device must contain a single pad — exactly one, no more, no less, that's the rule 👑

and fr fr, this is just a convenience wrapper around __media_pipeline_stop 🎁 she's not doing anything wild under the hood, she's just a cute little shortcut 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kernel file ./include/media/v4l2-dev.h and literally the entire gang, we're listing everyone ⭐ (iykyk):

• enum vfl_devnode_type(9)
• enum vfl_devnode_direction(9)
• enum v4l2_video_device_flags(9)
• struct v4l2_prio_state(9)
• v4l2_prio_init(9)
• v4l2_prio_change(9)
• v4l2_prio_open(9)
• v4l2_prio_close(9)
• v4l2_prio_max(9)
• v4l2_prio_check(9)
• struct v4l2_file_operations(9)
• struct video_device(9)
• media_entity_to_video_device(9)
• to_video_device(9)
• __video_register_device(9)
• video_register_device(9)
• video_register_device_no_warn(9)
• video_unregister_device(9)
• video_device_alloc(9)
• video_device_release(9)
• video_device_release_empty(9)
• v4l2_disable_ioctl(9)
• video_get_drvdata(9)
• video_set_drvdata(9)
• video_devdata(9)
• video_drvdata(9)
• video_device_node_name(9)
• video_is_registered(9)
• v4l2_debugfs_root(9)
• video_device_pipeline_start(9)
• __video_device_pipeline_start(9)
• video_device_pipeline_stop(9)
• video_device_pipeline_alloc_start(9)
• video_device_pipeline(9)

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okay that's the whole page, go touch some grass 🌈

sign-off era: this lil beauty lives in ./include/media, stamped October 2026, and the header/footer both say __video_devi...ipeline_stop(9) — main character energy, we love to see it 💅💖🔥