drm_plane_c...pha_property(9)

💅 drm_plane_create_alpha_property(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the drm_plane_c...pha_property(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the one that teaches you how to make a plane go from see-through to fully booked and opaque, and honestly? iconic behaviour.

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✨ NAME ✨

drm_plane_create_alpha_property — create a new alpha property 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int drm_plane_create_alpha_property (struct drm_plane *plane );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• plane — the drm plane in question, your main character fr fr

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this function creates a generic, mutable, alpha property and turns on support for it inside the DRM core. It gets attached to plane. That's it, that's the whole serve. 💅

And the range? The alpha property is allowed to be anywhere within the bounds of 0 (which is transparent, aka ghost mode 👻) all the way up to 0xffff (which is opaque, aka fully there, no notes 🔥). No cap.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 on success — slay ✅
• a negative error code on failure — not slay 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• overview(9) — in the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c
• drm_plane_create_rotation_property(9)
• drm_rotation_simplify(9)
• drm_plane_create_zpos_property(9)
• drm_plane_create_zpos_immutable_property(9)
• drm_atomic_normalize_zpos(9)
• drm_plane_create_blend_mode_property(9)
• drm_crtc_attach_background_color_property(9)

go read all of them, iykyk 🧚💜

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okay that's the whole page bestie, hope the vibe check passed 💖 this came to you from ./drivers/gpu/drm and it's dated October 2026, so mark your calendar and stan the DRM core, periodt 🎀✨🦋