fimc_pipeline_prepare(9)

✨ fimc_pipeline_prepare(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one lives in section 9 and it's giving "glue function that quietly holds the whole thing together" energy 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fimc_pipeline_prepare — literally just updates the pipeline info with subdevice pointers 💅 no cap, that's the whole job

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void fimc_pipeline_prepare (struct fimc_pipeline *p , struct media_entity *me );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — the fimc pipeline, bestie. that's the one getting its info updated ✨
• me — the media entity that terminates the pipeline 🏁 like the end of the line, literally

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Caller holds the graph mutex. 🔒

fr fr that's the entire description. the caller holds the graph mutex — that's the vibes, that's the requirement, that's the whole paragraph. don't come for me, I just report what the kernel says 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/platform/samsung/exynos4-is/media-dev.c 📁
• __subdev_set_power(9)
• fimc_pipeline_s_power(9)
• __fimc_pipeline_enable(9)
• __fimc_pipeline_open(9)
• __fimc_pipeline_close(9)
• __fimc_pipeline_s_stream(9)
• __fimc_md_create_fimc_sink_links(9)
• fimc_md_create_links(9)

like, go read the whole friend group 💜 they're all connected, iykyk

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that's the page, periodt 🌈

so this came from ./drivers/media/platform/samsu... and the date on it is October 2026 — iconic of it, honestly. mwah, bye bestie 💋🎀