iio_backend_chan_disable(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iio_backend_chan_disable — the Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel API manual today — this is iio_backend_chan_disable(9), and honestly? it does exactly what it says on the tin, which is so refreshing. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

iio_backend_chan_disable — Disable a backend channel. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she turns the channel off, no cap 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int iio_backend_chan_disable (struct iio_backend *back , unsigned int
chan );

literally just hand her the backend and the channel number and she handles the rest 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • back — the Backend device. your main character, the one holding it all together 👑
  • chan — the Channel number. which specific one we're shutting down 💫

💖 RETURN 💖

  • 0 on success — slay, it worked, we ate 🍓
  • negative error number on failure — not the vibe, but at least she tells you exactly which negative error number it was, so you can go fix it 😭
fr fr, check that return value. negative numbers are never just "a little bit of success."

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group's here — the Kernel file lives at ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c, and the extended fam is:

iykyk, it's giving very well-connected function 🌈

and that's the page, bestie 🧚 the source is ./drivers/iio, dated October 2026, and the manual name is iio_backend_chan_disable(9) in case you forgot already 💀 mwah, go disable some channels 💜

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