drm_print_bits(9)

💅 drm_print_bits(9)

okay bestie, so this is drm_print_bits(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes, the actual kernel, the big one, and you're about to understand it. it's giving "tiny helper, huge glow-up" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_print_bits — print bits to a &drm_printer stream 💖

like, it takes your bits and makes them readable, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void drm_print_bits (struct drm_printer *p , unsigned long value , const
char * const bits[] , unsigned int nbits );

(yeah the spacing is a little feral, that's just how the manpage wrote it, we respect it 🙈)

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — the drm_printer. this is your stream bestie, the thing everything gets printed into. main character energy fr.
• value — the field value. the actual number you're showing off to the world 🔥
• bits — Array with bit names. the lil roster of names, one per bit 👑
• nbits — Size of bit names array. how many names are in that roster, so nobody reads past the end 😭

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print bits (in flag fields for example) in human readable form.

that's it, that's the whole vibe. think of it like translating a bunch of raw flag bits into something a human can actually read — the way that it takes your value and your name array and goes "here's which ones are set" instead of making you squint at hex 💅

it's lowkey the same energy as when someone sends you a wall of text and you're like "bestie just say which ones are on" — that's this function. periodt.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_print.c 🍓
• drm_puts(9)
• drm_printf(9)
• drm_print_regset32(9)
• drm_print_hex_dump(9)

go read the whole squad, they're all iconic in their own way 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶

little sign-off: this one lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm, stamped October 2026, and it's drm_print_bits(9) — so go print some bits, slay, and remember: the vibe changes, the facts do not 💖✨🎀