drmm_plain_encoder_alloc(9)

🎀 drmm_plain_encoder_alloc 🎀

okay so bestie, you're in the Kernel API Manual (that's the manual name, iykyk) and today's main character is drmm_plain_encoder_alloc. she's small, she's simple, she's literally just an encoder allocator. let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

drmm_plain_encoder_alloc — Allocate and initialize an encoder 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

drmm_plain_encoder_alloc (dev , funcs , encoder_type , name , ... );

like yes, those spaces are exactly how she's written, don't come for her 💀

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dev — the drm device 🖥️
• funcs — the callbacks for this encoder (optional! yes queen, you can pass nothing here 🫶)
• encoder_type — the user visible type of the encoder 👀
• name — a printf style format string for the encoder name, or NULL for the default name 🏷️
• ... — variable arguments (the lil extras that feed into that format string ✨)

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

So this is the simplified version of drmm_encoder_alloc, ok? 🎀 The way that she only allocates and returns a struct drm_encoder instance, with no subclassing. That's it. That's the whole vibe. no extra layers, no secret extra structs, just the plain encoder and she ate 🔥

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

She hands you back a pointer to the new drm_encoder struct 💖 — or an ERR_PTR on failure 😭 (so bestie, please check that pointer, do not just start using it, that's not the move 🙈).

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/drm/drm_encoder.h, plus the whole friend group:

• struct drm_encoder_funcs(9)
• struct drm_encoder(9)
• drmm_encoder_alloc(9)
• drm_encoder_index(9)
• drm_encoder_mask(9)
• drm_encoder_crtc_ok(9)
• drm_encoder_find(9)
• drm_for_each_encoder_mask(9)
• drm_for_each_encoder(9)

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lowkey reminder bestie: this page lives in ./include/drm, and ngl the version date on her is October 2026 — iconic, we love a forward-thinking timestamp 👑💜

and that's the page!! mwah, go allocate something cute 💅💖🎀