drm_edid_get_monitor_name(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 drm_edid_get_monitor_name(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for drm_edid_get_monitor_name — the lil function whose whole personality is "grab the monitor's name out of the EDID" 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

drm_edid_get_monitor_name — fetch the monitor name from the edid 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void drm_edid_get_monitor_name (const struct edid *edid , char *name ,
       int bufsize );

like, that's the whole signature, no cap 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • edid — the monitor EDID information. this is the source of truth, the main character of the whole operation 👑
  • name — a pointer to a character array that's gonna hold the name of the monitor. it's giving "here's an empty bowl, go fill it" 🍓
  • bufsize — the size of the name buffer, and bestie, it should be at least 14 chars. fr fr, don't skimp on this one 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c — that's where the actual code lives, go say hi 🧚

and like, the whole EDID friend group, literally all of them:

like yes, that's a lot of them, and yes, they're all iconic 💅✨

lowkey a reminder from your girl: that bufsize thing is at least 14 chars, okay? bestie behavior is checking your buffer size before you write into it 🙈

so yeah, that's the page 🎀 shoutout to the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm and the version stamp October 2026 — this one's signed, sealed, and slayed, mwah 💖👑

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