hdmi_spd_infoframe_check(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 hdmi_spd_infoframe_check(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the hdmi_spd_infoframe_check page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of a vibe check for your infoframe, iykyk 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

hdmi_spd_infoframe_check — check a HDMI SPD infoframe 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int hdmi_spd_infoframe_check (struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • frame — the HDMI SPD infoframe, like, the actual thing you're checking. it's giving "the main character of this function" 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what this does is validate that the infoframe is consistent, and then it updates derived fields (eg. length) based on the other fields 🌈 literally it's cross-checking everything and then fixing up the stuff that's supposed to follow from the rest.

it returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure 💀 so like, zero means slay, negative means something's off, bestie.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/video/hdmi.c, plus the whole friend group of related calls 🫶:

that's the whole page bestie, go off and check those infoframes 💖✨

signed off from ./drivers/video 🌸 dated October 2026 🎀 — periodt. 💅

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