encode_rs16(9)

🌸 encode_rs16(9) — the Kernel API Manual cut 💅

ok so bestie, welcome to encode_rs16(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the little function that crunches out parity for your data values, and it's working with 16-bit data width 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

encode_rs16 — literally just Calculate the parity for data values (16bit data width) 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int encode_rs16 (struct rs_control *rsc , uint16_t *data , int len ,
uint16_t *par , uint16_t invmsk );

that's the whole vibe fr fr 👑

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• rsc — the rs control structure, your main character here 💅
• data — data field of a given type
• len — data length
• par — parity data, and heads up: it must be initialized by caller (usually all 0) 🙈 don't come crying to me if you forget
• invmsk — invert data mask (will be xored on data, not on parity!) ⚠️ read that again bestie, data, not parity

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Each field in the data array contains up to symbol size bits of valid data ✨ that's the tea, no cap 🍓

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c plus the whole friend group:

• codec_init(9)
• free_rs(9)
• init_rs_internal(9)
• init_rs_gfp(9)
• init_rs_non_canonical(9)
• encode_rs8(9)
• decode_rs8(9)
• decode_rs16(9)

go read them, iykyk 📚

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ok that's the page!! 💜 this one lives over in ./lib/reed_solomon, dated October 2026, and it's filed under encode_rs16(9) — slay, bye bestie 🧚‍♀️⭐