cvs_csi_notify_bound(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 cvs_csi_notify_bound(9) — like, the remote sensor bound callback bestie ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's about cvs_csi_notify_bound(9), which is genuinely the moment a remote sensor shows up and gets formally introduced to the CVS bridge 🫶 honestly it's giving matchmaker energy and I am obsessed.

🌸 NAME 🌸

cvs_csi_notify_bound — the remote sensor bound callback. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int cvs_csi_notify_bound (struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier , struct
v4l2_subdev *sd , struct v4l2_async_connection *asc );

like, it returns an int. wrote that down so you don't have to ask 🙈

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • notifier — the async notifier. yes bestie the notifier, the one doing the notifying 💅
  • sd — the remote subdev. that's the sensor across the room, main character of the pairing ⭐
  • asc — the async match connection. the little link that says "these two go together" 🔥

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it do? it goes and locates the source pad of the remote sensor, then creates a media link to the CVS bridge sink pad — and then, iconic behaviour, it enables that link by default. no extra steps, no asking permission, it just slays and the link is live ✨ ngl that's the whole thing, no cap.

🌈 RETURN 🌈

  • 0 on success 🥳
  • a negative errno if it's not giving success 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, fr fr:

ok and a gentle heads-up: if you're looking for cvs_csi_notify_unbind(9) — that's the opposite moment, the goodbye. bound is the hello. don't mix them up bestie 🫶

🧚 sign-off 🧚

this little love letter lives in ./drivers/media/i2c/cvs, dated October 2026, and it's filed under cvs_csi_notify_bound(9) — go forth and link those pads, bestie, you're gonna eat 💅👑💖

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