hdmi_audio_infoframe_unpack(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ hdmi_audio_infoframe_unpack(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — yes, the actual manual, and yes, this page is about one single function that turns a raw blob of bytes into a nice structured HDMI Audio infoframe. she's iconic, she's specific, let's go 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

hdmi_audio_infoframe_unpack — unpack binary buffer to a HDMI AUDIO infoframe

like, that's literally her whole job. unpacking. binary buffer ➡️ structured frame. no cap 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int hdmi_audio_infoframe_unpack (struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame ,
const void *buffer , size_t size );

ok so she takes three things and gives you back an int. that's the whole vibe check ✨

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • frame — the HDMI Audio infoframe 💖 this is the structured thing you're filling up. she's the destination, the main character of this operation.
  • buffer — source buffer 🌈 the raw binary bytes you're reading from. the messy little pile of data going in.
  • size — size of buffer 🌸 yes bestie, you have to tell her how big it is, she's not gonna guess.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what actually happens 👀 — she unpacks the information contained in the binary buffer into a structured frame of the HDMI Audio information frame. it's giving glow-up: chaotic bytes in, well-behaved struct out 💅

and she's thorough, okay? she also verifies the checksum, as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification. checksum verification is mandatory, bestie, it's literally in the spec 📜✨ so no skipping.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure. 🫶 so like — 0 is the slay outcome, negative = something went wrong and she's telling you about it. not mean, just honest 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group fr fr — she does not exist in a vacuum, and here's everybody:

fr fr go read those too, she's not doing this alone and neither should you 💖

aaaand that's the page, bestie 🫶 this gem lives over in ./drivers/video and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's current, she's fresh, she's the moment. go unpack something iconic 💅✨🍓

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