cvs_dev(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

hey bestie, welcome to cvs_dev(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖

• cvs_dev — a helper that returns the struct device for a CVS context.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct device * cvs_dev (struct icvs *ctx );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ctx — the CVS context. that’s the whole argument list, bestie 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the entire vibe is this: it avoids repeating transport conditional logic at each call site when acquiring the device pointer for logging or PM operations. literally just here so you don’t have to copy-paste that little dance everywhere, no cap 🫶

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👑 RETURN 👑

• Device pointer.
• It’s never NULL if ctx is valid. periodt. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at these icons, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/i2c/cvs/icvs.h
• enum icvs_csi_cmd_id(9)
• enum icvs_csi_link_owner(9)
• enum icvs_csi_privacy_status(9)
• enum icvs_csi_pads(9)
• CVS device quirk flags(9)
• struct icvs_device_quirk(9)
• struct icvs_dt_config(9)
• struct icvs_vc_config(9)
• struct icvs_link_cfg(9)
• struct icvs_fw_version(9)
• struct icvs_vid_pid(9)
• struct icvs_mipi_data_packet(9)
• struct icvs_mipi_read_packet(9)
• struct icvs_dev_capabilities(9)
• struct icvs_cmd(9)
• struct icvs_resp(9)
• enum icvs_resources(9)
• enum icvs_command(9)
• enum icvs_state(9)
• struct icvs(9)

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mwah 💋 this page lives at source/version ./drivers/media/i2c/cvs and is dated October 2026 — catch u later bestie 🧚‍♀️✨