devm_iio_backend_register(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 devm_iio_backend_register — Device managed backend device register

okay so bestie, welcome to the devm_iio_backend_register(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a kernel manpage, yes it's giving very serious business, and yes I'm still gonna make you understand it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

devm_iio_backend_register — Device managed backend device register

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int devm_iio_backend_register (struct device *dev , const struct
       iio_backend_info *info , void *priv );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dev — the Backend device being registered, like the actual thing you're putting on the books 📋
  • info — the Backend info, aka the details bestie, come on
  • priv — Device private data, your little stash of extra stuff that travels with it 💜

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

info is mandatory. Not optional. Not "if u feel like it". Not a vibe. If you don't provide it, you get -EINVAL back, which is the kernel's way of saying "bestie. no." 😭 So like... provide it. Always.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success — slay ✨
  • a negative error number on failure — not slay 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file lives at ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c — go read it, iykyk 📖

And here's the whole friend group, all of them, every single one:

that's the whole list, no cap, I did not skip a single one because besties don't skip. periodt. 💅

and that's the page!! sourced straight from ./drivers/iio, dated October 2026, and signed off as devm_iio_backend_register(9) — mwah, go register your backends, ily 🫶🍓

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