hdmi_drm_infoframe_init(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ hdmi_drm_infoframe_init(9) ✨

okay so this one's from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's genuinely short and sweet — a little init function for an HDMI Dynamic Range and mastering infoframe. Yes bestie, HDR metadata for HDMI. We're doing it. 💅

🌈 NAME 🌈

hdmi_drm_infoframe_init — initialize an HDMI Dynaminc Range and mastering infoframe 💖

(no that's not a typo I made, that's literally how it's spelled on the page, and I am not about to change a single character of it, iykyk)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int hdmi_drm_infoframe_init (struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • frame — the HDMI DRM infoframe. That's the thing you're handing over so it can get set up. 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

That's genuinely it, bestie. It returns 0 on success, or a negative error code on failure. Iconic, minimal, no notes. 🌸

fr fr, if the number that comes back is negative, something went sideways — that's your vibe check saying "nope". 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/video/hdmi.c, plus the whole entire friend group of infoframe functions:

like. every single one. the whole roster. go read them, I'll wait 💀✨

anyway that's the page 🎀 it lives at ./drivers/video, dated October 2026, and you can find it under hdmi_drm_infoframe_init(9) in the Kernel API Manual. mwah, go init some infoframes bestie 💜🧚

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