gobj_to_entity(9)

💅 gobj_to_entity — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the gobj_to_entity(9) page ✨ this is a kernel API manual entry (yes, the nine in the parentheses means kernel section, iykyk), and it's genuinely so simple it's iconic.

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🌸 NAME

gobj_to_entity — returns the struct &media_entity pointer from the @gobj contained on it.

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it a gobj, it hands you back the entity pointer that lives inside it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

gobj_to_entity (gobj );

no cap, that's the exact call, semicolon spacing and all — don't come for me about the stray space before the paren, it's literally in the original 💀

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• gobj — Pointer to the struct media_gobj graph object. that's the thing you're passing in, and she's a pointer, so pls don't hand over a whole struct, that's not the assignment 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO

bestie this list is long — she ate and left no crumbs. everything below lives in the kernel file ./include/media/media-entity.h, and honestly it's giving "the whole media subsystem showed up to the group chat":

• enum media_gobj_type(9)
• struct media_gobj(9)
• struct media_entity_enum(9)
• struct media_graph(9)
• struct media_pipeline(9)
• struct media_pipeline_pad(9)
• struct media_pipeline_pad_iter(9)
• struct media_pipeline_entity_iter(9)
• struct media_link(9)
• enum media_pad_signal_type(9)
• struct media_pad(9)
• struct media_entity_operations(9)
• enum media_entity_type(9)
• struct media_entity(9)
• media_entity_for_each_pad(9)
• struct media_interface(9)
• struct media_intf_devnode(9)
• media_entity_id(9)
• media_type(9)
• media_id(9)
• media_gobj_gen_id(9)
• is_media_entity_v4l2_video_device(9)
• is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev(9)
• media_entity_enum_init(9)
• media_entity_enum_cleanup(9)
• media_entity_enum_zero(9)
• media_entity_enum_set(9)
• media_entity_enum_clear(9)
• media_entity_enum_test(9)
• media_entity_enum_test_and_set(9)
• media_entity_enum_empty(9)
• media_entity_enum_intersects(9)
• gobj_to_pad(9)
• gobj_to_link(9)
• gobj_to_intf(9)
• intf_to_devnode(9)
• media_gobj_create(9)
• media_gobj_destroy(9)
• media_entity_pads_init(9)
• media_entity_cleanup(9)
• media_get_pad_index(9)
• media_create_pad_link(9)
• media_create_pad_links(9)
• media_entity_remove_links(9)
• __media_entity_setup_link(9)
• media_entity_setup_link(9)
• media_entity_find_link(9)
• media_pad_remote_pad_first(9)
• media_pad_remote_pad_unique(9)
• media_entity_remote_pad_unique(9)
• media_entity_remote_source_pad_unique(9)
• media_pad_is_streaming(9)
• media_entity_is_streaming(9)
• media_entity_pipeline(9)
• media_pad_pipeline(9)
• media_entity_get_fwnode_pad(9)
• media_graph_walk_init(9)
• media_graph_walk_cleanup(9)
• media_graph_walk_start(9)
• media_graph_walk_next(9)
• media_pipeline_start(9)
• __media_pipeline_start(9)
• media_pipeline_stop(9)
• __media_pipeline_stop(9)
• media_pipeline_for_each_pad(9)
• media_pipeline_entity_iter_init(9)
• media_pipeline_entity_iter_cleanup(9)
• media_pipeline_for_each_entity(9)
• media_pipeline_alloc_start(9)
• media_devnode_create(9)
• media_devnode_remove(9)
• media_create_intf_link(9)
• __media_remove_intf_link(9)
• media_remove_intf_link(9)
• __media_remove_intf_links(9)
• media_remove_intf_links(9)
• media_entity_call(9)
• media_create_ancillary_link(9)
• __media_entity_next_link(9)
• for_each_media_entity_data_link(9)

real talk: my girl gobj_to_entity is the tiny little converter in a whole family of converters — see gobj_to_pad(9), gobj_to_link(9) and gobj_to_intf(9) above if you want the siblings 🦋

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💖 a lil sign-off

that's the page, bestie! source path is ./include/media and the date stamp on this one is October 2026 — so she's cute, she's current, she's dated, periodt 💅✨ go convert some gobjs, you absolute icon 🌈👑