comedi_8254_status(9)

✨ comedi_8254_status(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this is the page for comedi_8254_status, and it is literally the most "just tell me what's going on in there" function ever. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

comedi_8254_status — return the status of a counter 👑

like, you hand it a counter and it hands you back the tea on that counter's current status. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unsigned int comedi_8254_status (struct comedi_8254 *i8254 , unsigned int counter );

literally copy that exactly, bestie — the return type is unsigned int, the two args are separated by that lil comma, periodt. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• i8254 — the comedi_8254 struct for the timer ⏱️ like, this is the timer's whole identity, its main character energy. you gotta give it the struct or it can't do anything for you, fr fr.
• counter — the counter number 🔢 which counter are we checking on? that one. the one you name right here. no guessing, just tell it which number and it goes and looks.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

sibling functions!! the whole friend group 🧚✨ go say hi:

• Kernel file ./drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_8254.c
• comedi_8254_read(9)
• comedi_8254_write(9)
• comedi_8254_set_mode(9)
• comedi_8254_load(9)
• comedi_8254_pacer_enable(9)
• comedi_8254_update_divisors(9)
• comedi_8254_cascade_ns_to_timer(9)
• comedi_8254_ns_to_timer(9)
• comedi_8254_set_busy(9)
• comedi_8254_subdevice_init(9)
• comedi_8254_io_alloc(9)
• comedi_8254_mm_alloc(9)

that's the whole clique, iykyk 💜

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reminder bestie: keep those names EXACTLY as written — usernames are not a vibe to improvise on, okay? 🙈

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and that's the page!! 🌸 mwah 💋 this lil sign-off is brought to you by the source path ./drivers/comedi/drivers, dated October 2026, and of course the one and only comedi_8254_status(9) — slay, ate, no crumbs left. 🎀🔥👑