drm_bridge_connector_init(9)

💅 drm_bridge_connector_init(9) 💅

okay bestie, grab your iced coffee because we're diving into the Kernel API Manual — this one is drm_bridge_connector_init, and it's literally the glow-up your bridge chain has been waiting for ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_bridge_connector_init — initialise a connector for a chain of bridges 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct drm_connector * drm_bridge_connector_init (struct drm_device *drm
, struct drm_encoder *encoder );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• drm — the DRM device, aka the main character of this whole situation 👑
• encoder — the encoder where the bridge chain starts, like the first person in the group chat to send the link 🔗

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what does it do? It creates a brand-new drm_bridge_connector for the drm device. Not me being obsessed with a connector but like… it's fully handled: the connector is allocated, initialised, registered with the drm device and attached to encoder. All four. She's booked and busy 💅

The connector is associated with a chain of bridges that starts at the encoder. And here's the vibe check, no cap — all bridges in the chain shall report bridge operation flags (drm_bridge->ops) and bridge output type (drm_bridge->type). Every single one. And none of them may create a DRM connector directly 🙈 that's this function's job, bestie, stay in your lane ✋

fr fr, if your bridges aren't reporting those flags and that type, or if one of them is out here making its own connector, that's not it. read the contract 💀

Returns a pointer to the new connector on success, or a negative error pointer otherwise 😭 (yes, an error pointer, not just a number — stay safe out there).

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c — the source, go read it, iykyk 📖
• overview(9)
• struct drm_bridge_connector(9)

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⭐ okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 huge slay. this little gem lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm/display, it's dated October 2026, and it came to you straight from the Kernel API Manual — mwah 💜🧚‍♀️