cvs_irq_handler(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 cvs_irq_handler(9) — bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's about cvs_irq_handler — the wake IRQ handler for full capability devices ✨ no cap, that's the whole vibe.

✨ NAME ✨

cvs_irq_handler — the wake IRQ handler 🫶 (for full capability devices only, iykyk)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

irqreturn_t cvs_irq_handler (int irq , void *dev_id );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • irq — the IRQ number, literally just the number of the interrupt we're talking about 🔥
  • dev_id — the device context pointer, aka the little handle that tells you which device we're dealing with 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So what does it actually do? It sets a waitqueue flag and then wakes up the sleeping waiters 😴➡️😳. That's it. That's the whole job. It's giving "wake up bestie, something happened" energy and honestly? Iconic. 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

IRQ_HANDLED — always. Every single time. Periodt. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/media/i2c/cvs/core.c — go read it, fr fr 📖

And the whole friend group of sibling functions, all in section 9:

no warnings, no bugs, no deprecation drama on this one — just a handler doing its lil job 🧚

okay that's the page!! 🍓 it lives in ./drivers/media/i2c/cvs, it's dated October 2026, and it came to you from the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go forth and handle those IRQs 💖🎀

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