drm_panel_get(9)

💅 drm_panel_get(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

Okay so this is drm_panel_get from the Kernel API Manual, and it's honestly so simple it's giving "one-line banger." Let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_panel_get — acquire a panel reference. That's it, that's the whole job. She grabs a reference and she keeps it 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct drm_panel * drm_panel_get (struct drm_panel *panel );

Literally one function, one argument, one return. Iconic minimalism, no notes 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• panel — the DRM panel. That's your girl. That's the thing you're getting a reference to 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it actually do? This function increments the panel's refcount. That's it. That's the whole function. A little ++, a little "you're mine now," and suddenly that panel isn't going anywhere on your watch 😭

Think of it as the polite way of saying "hey, I'm using this, don't free it out from under me" — the refcount goes up, the panel stays alive, and everybody's happy ✨

Not me emphasizing that this is the get side of the pair — the matching release is in SEE ALSO, and yes you should absolutely go look at it, iykyk 👀

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

Returns a pointer to panel. Same panel you handed in, back out again, refcount now feeling a little more loved. Slay 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Gonna list every single one of these because they're all main characters in the DRM panel cinematic universe, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c — the source, go read it, it's lowkey fun 🍓
• drm panel(9)
• drm_panel_init(9)
• drm_panel_add(9)
• drm_panel_remove(9)
• devm_drm_panel_add(9)
• drm_panel_prepare(9)
• drm_panel_unprepare(9)
• drm_panel_enable(9)
• drm_panel_disable(9)
• drm_panel_get_modes(9)
• drm_panel_put(9)
• drm_panel_put_void(9)
• of_drm_find_panel(9)
• drm_is_panel_follower(9)
• drm_panel_add_follower(9)
• drm_panel_remove_follower(9)
• devm_drm_panel_add_follower(9)
• drm_panel_of_backlight(9)

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And that's the whole page, bestie 🌸 — brought to you by ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, no cap. Go forth and increment those refcounts responsibly 💜✨