drm_panel_init(9)

✨ drm_panel_init(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to drm_panel_init, the lil function from the Kernel API Manual that gets your panel's whole life set up. think of it as the glow-up appointment before the actual debut 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

drm_panel_init — initialize a panel. that's it, that's the vibe 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void drm_panel_init (struct drm_panel *panel , struct device *dev ,
const struct drm_panel_funcs *funcs , int connector_type );

like, yes, four args, no cap, we'll get to each one 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• panel — the DRM panel itself, your main character 👑
• dev — the parent device of the panel, aka who's responsible for it 🍼
• funcs — the panel operations, the whole choreography of what it can actually do ✨
• connector_type — the connector type (DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_*) that corresponds to the panel interface. and listen, this one has rules: it must NOT be DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Unknown 🚫 iykyk

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what it does is initialize the panel structure so you can register it later with drm_panel_add. that's the whole job, and it ate 🔥 it's literally the setup arc before the registration arc, and you can't skip it, bestie 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
• drm panel(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_get(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)

like the whole friend group honestly 🫶 go read them too, they all slay in their own way ⭐

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💀 reminder for the girlies: that connector_type being DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Unknown? not it. don't do it. periodt.

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and that's the page!! mwah 💖 this one came from ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026 — catch you in the next manpage, bestie! 🎀🦋🌸