drm_panel_bridge_connector(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 drm_panel_bridge_connector(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — we're doing a whole deep-dive on one genuinely tiny function and honestly? she's iconic for it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

drm_panel_bridge_connector — the girl whose entire job is handing you the connector for the panel bridge. that's it. that's the function. short king energy 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct drm_connector * drm_panel_bridge_connector (struct drm_bridge
*bridge );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • bridge — The drm_bridge. literally just the bridge, bestie, that's the whole input 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the lore: drm_panel_bridge creates the connector. yep, she did that, not this function, don't get it twisted 🙈

what drm_panel_bridge_connector does is give you external access to that connector. like, the connector already exists — this is just the friend who lets you into the group chat 💅

⭐ RETURN ⭐

a pointer to drm_connector 💫 that's it, that's the whole return value, go off king

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole fam, no cap — check out the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c and these absolutely iconic siblings:

🧚 reminder bestie: this is the Kernel API Manual, living over in ./drivers/gpu/drm/bridge, dated October 2026 — and drm_panel_bridge_connector(9) is the main character of today's episode 💜

🌸 mwah, go read the source, ily, bye 💖

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