hdmi_drm_infoframe_check(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 hdmi_drm_infoframe_check(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual one bestie 🎀

okay so real talk: this is the hdmi_drm_infoframe_check</p> page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is exactly what it says on the tin — a vibe check for your HDMI DRM infoframe ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

hdmi_drm_infoframe_check — checks a HDMI DRM infoframe. that's it, that's the whole name, and honestly? iconic for being so direct 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int hdmi_drm_infoframe_check (struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame );

so she's a function, she returns an int, and she takes exactly one little pointer. no cap, that's the whole signature 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • frame — the HDMI DRM infoframe. literally the one thing you're handing her. she'll look at it, she'll judge it (lovingly), and she'll tell you if it's valid 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what she actually does is validate that the infoframe is consistent. think of it as a vibe check for your data structure — is this thing internally coherent or is it giving chaos? 🔥

then she reports back:

  • returns 0 on success — slay, your infoframe ate, no notes 💯
  • returns a negative error code on failure — not slay, something's inconsistent, go fix it 😭

that's genuinely the whole description. short and confident, main character energy fr fr.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/video/hdmi.c — and like, the entire extended friend group of infoframe functions, all of whom you should absolutely go meet:

thirty of them. thirty!! the whole init → check → pack → unpack pipeline is right there, iykyk 🌸

💀 tiny warning bestie: success is 0, and anything negative means it failed the vibe check. don't go treating a negative return like a win, fr fr 🙈

that's the whole page!! she lives in ./drivers/video, this is the October 2026 edition, and that's the Kernel API Manual signing off 🧚💜 bye bestie, go validate some infoframes 🍓

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