dma_get_slave_channel(9)

💅 dma_get_slave_channel(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for dma_get_slave_channel(9) — yes the (9) is part of the name, it's giving official, it's giving kernel-doc, we love that for us ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dma_get_slave_channel — try to get a specific channel exclusively 👑 no sharing, no splitting, this channel is yours, main character energy only 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct dma_chan * dma_get_slave_channel (struct dma_chan *chan );

like literally that's the whole signature 🫶 one function, one pointer in, one pointer out, no drama 🌈

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• chan — target channel 🎯 the one you're coming for. it's the channel you want, bestie, and the function is gonna try to get it for you — exclusively, periodt 🔥

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

the whole friend group 💖 first up, the kernel file where all this lives:

Kernel file ./drivers/dma/dmaengine.c

and then the crew, all of them, no cap, every single one 🫡

• dev_to_dma_chan(9)
• struct dma_chan_tbl_ent(9)
• dma_chan_is_local(9)
• min_chan(9)
• dma_channel_rebalance(9)
• balance_ref_count(9)
• dma_chan_get(9)
• dma_chan_put(9)
• dma_find_channel(9)
• dma_issue_pending_all(9)
• __dma_request_channel(9)
• dma_request_chan(9)
• dma_request_chan_by_mask(9)
• devm_dma_request_chan(9)
• dmaengine_get(9)
• dmaengine_put(9)
• dma_async_device_register(9)
• dma_async_device_unregister(9)
• dmaenginem_async_device_register(9)
• dma_wait_for_async_tx(9)
• dma_run_dependencies(9)

like that's a whole squad, iykyk 😭💜

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🧚 sign-off 🧚

this little beauty ships out of ./drivers/dma 📁 and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ and yeah, the page name is still dma_get_slave_channel(9) because we don't do name changes around here 💀 slay, go get your channel bestie 🎀💖