cdns_uart_console_setup(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 cdns_uart_console_setup — the canonical "get this UART dressed and ready" moment ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for cdns_uart_console_setup(9) — it's giving very much "wake up babe, new console init dropped" energy 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

cdns_uart_console_setup — literally just Initialize the uart to default config. that's it. that's the whole gig. she shows up, she sets the defaults, she leaves. iconic behaviour, no notes 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int cdns_uart_console_setup (struct console *co , char *options );

yep, that's the whole signature, character for character, don't come for me 🙈

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • co — the Console handle 🫶 like, your little passport to this console, that's what she is.
  • options — the Initial settings of uart ⭐ the starting fit, the outfit she's gonna be wearing when she boots up.

👑 RETURN 👑

0 on success, negative errno otherwise 💀 so like, zero = slay, negative = not slay. lowkey the most straightforward vibe check in the whole kernel ngl.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so this is the part where the manpage just, like, dumps the entire friend group 😭 and we love a full roster so here she is, everybody in ./drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c plus the whole squad:

like okayyy whole extended family at the function reunion 🔥 every single one kept, no gatekeeping, periodt.

ngl there's not a single warning, caveat or edge case spelled out on this page — it's a short one, so don't go inventing drama that isn't there bestie 💜

🎀 cute little sign-off 🎀

this page lives in ./drivers/tty/serial, dated October 2026, from the Kernel API Manual — so yeah, that's the whole vibe. go init those defaults, you absolute legend 🧚💖 </output>

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