fb_add_videomode(9)

✨ fb_add_videomode(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 you're literally about to learn how to slide a videomode into a modelist. it's giving low-level framebuffer realness and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fb_add_videomode — adds videomode entry to modelist 🎀

like, that's the whole job. it adds the thing to the list. slay.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int fb_add_videomode (const struct fb_videomode *mode , struct list_head
*head );

not me copying this exactly because you need it exactly 🫶

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• mode — the videomode to add ✨ this is the actual mode you're showing up with, the main character of the operation
• head — a struct list_head of modelist 🌈 it's the list you're adding into, the group chat mode is joining

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👑 NOTES 👑

okay so here's the vibe check, and it's important, no cap:

Will only add unmatched mode entries

meaning if the mode is already matched up in there, it's not getting added again. the list stays unbothered. periodt. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c — and the whole friend group:

• fb_try_mode(9)
• fb_find_mode(9)
• fb_var_to_videomode(9)
• fb_videomode_to_var(9)
• fb_mode_is_equal(9)
• fb_find_best_mode(9)
• fb_find_nearest_mode(9)
• fb_match_mode(9)
• fb_delete_videomode(9)
• fb_destroy_modelist(9)
• fb_videomode_to_modelist(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 it lives in ./drivers/video/fbdev/core, dated October 2026, and it's filed under fb_add_videomode(9). go add some modes, you've got this 🧚✨