drm_connect...tv_get_modes(9)

💅 drm_connect...tv_get_modes(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's about drm_connector_helper_tv_get_modes, which lowkey has the longest name ever but it's iconic, periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_connector_helper_tv_get_modes — fills the modes availables to a TV connector 📺💖

(no fr that's literally what it does, it's giving "here are all your display options, bestie")

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int drm_connector_helper_tv_get_modes (struct drm_connector *connector
);

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• connector — the connector 🫶 (yep. that's it. that's the whole argument. love that for us)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way that this works: it fills in the available modes for a TV connector, based on the supported TV modes and the default mode expressed by the kernel command line. 🎯

And honestly? It's so useful — you can totally use this as the default TV connector helper .get_modes hook if the driver doesn't need any special processing. no extra work, no custom code, just vibes 💅✨

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

It returns the number of modes added to the connector 🔢👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so this list is long but every single one of these is a friend of the family, so here we go, no skips, no cap:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c output probing helper overview(9)
• drm_kms_helper_poll_enable(9)
• drm_kms_helper_poll_reschedule(9)
• drm_helper_probe_detect(9)
• drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(9)
• drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event(9)
• drm_kms_helper_connector_hotplug_event(9)
• drm_kms_helper_is_poll_worker(9)
• drm_kms_helper_poll_disable(9)
• drm_kms_helper_poll_init(9)
• drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(9)
• drmm_kms_helper_poll_init(9)
• drm_connector_helper_hpd_irq_event(9)
• drm_helper_hpd_irq_event(9)
• drm_crtc_helper_mode_valid_fixed(9)
• drm_connector_helper_get_modes_fixed(9)
• drm_connector_helper_get_modes(9)
• drm_connector_helper_detect_from_ddc(9)

like, the whole squad. iykyk 💜

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ngl, careful reading the modes stuff — it's all above board here, nothing sketchy, just a helper doing its thing 🧚‍♀️

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aaaand that's the page bestie!! 🥳 this one comes straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, and it's drm_connect...tv_get_modes(9) in the Kernel API Manual — go off, you understood it, slay 💖🎀🫶🔥