drm_display...from_cea_vic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💻 drm_display...from_cea_vic(9) — the Kernel API Manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the manual page for drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally one function but it's a very good function. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic — return a mode for CEA VIC 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct drm_display_mode * drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic (struct
drm_device *dev , u8 video_code );

like, that's the whole vibe. dev, video_code, boom, you get a mode pointer back. iconic.

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • dev — the DRM device 💖 that's your graphics device, the main character of this whole operation
  • video_code — the CEA VIC of the mode 🍓 (u8, so it's smol — an 8-bit number, no cap)

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Creates a new mode matching the specified CEA VIC. that's it. that's the whole thing. it takes your video_code and hands you back a mode that matches it — no extra steps, no drama, just vibes and a fresh struct drm_display_mode 🌈

👑 RETURN 👑

A new drm_display_mode on success ✨ or NULL on failure 😭 — so like, always check your return value bestie, don't be out here dereferencing NULL fr fr 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c — that's where the whole squad lives, and here's everyone you should go say hi to 👋💖

that's forty whole functions bestie, the EDID squad is DEEP 😭🔥 like genuinely nobody does it like drm_edid.c

ngl, this page is short but she's efficient — one function, one job, and she ate 💅

mwah 💋 that's the page!! brought to you by the Kernel API Manual, living at ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026 — same title, same version vibes, no facts dropped, periodt 🎀✨🦋

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