iio_backend_chan_enable(9)

💖 NAME 💖

iio_backend_chan_enable — Enable a backend channel.

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for iio_backend_chan_enable(9), and its whole personality is enabling a backend channel. no cap, that's the vibe. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• back — Backend device. this is the backend device you're working with, bestie. 💖
• chan — Channel number. literally the channel number. 🎀

🌸 RETURN 🌸

Returns 0 on success, and a negative error number on failure. periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the lore continues in these pages, iykyk:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c
• iio_backend_debugfs_add(9)
• iio_backend_debugfs_print_chan_status(9)
• iio_backend_chan_disable(9)
• iio_backend_disable(9)
• iio_backend_enable(9)
• devm_iio_backend_enable(9)
• iio_backend_data_format_set(9)
• iio_backend_data_source_set(9)
• iio_backend_data_source_get(9)
• iio_backend_set_sampling_freq(9)
• iio_backend_test_pattern_set(9)
• iio_backend_chan_status(9)
• iio_backend_iodelay_set(9)
• iio_backend_data_sample_trigger(9)
• devm_iio_backend_request_buffer(9)
• iio_backend_read_raw(9)
• iio_backend_ext_info_get(9)
• iio_backend_ext_info_set(9)
• iio_backend_interface_type_get(9)
• iio_backend_data_size_set(9)
• iio_backend_oversampling_ratio_set(9)
• iio_backend_extend_chan_spec(9)
• iio_backend_has_caps(9)
• iio_backend_filter_type_set(9)
• iio_backend_interface_data_align(9)
• iio_backend_num_lanes_set(9)
• iio_backend_ddr_enable(9)
• iio_backend_ddr_disable(9)
• iio_backend_data_stream_enable(9)
• iio_backend_data_stream_disable(9)
• iio_backend_data_transfer_addr(9)
• devm_iio_backend_get(9)
• devm_iio_backend_get_by_index(9)
• devm_iio_backend_fwnode_get(9)
• __devm_iio_backend_get_from_fwnode_lookup(9)
• iio_backend_get_priv(9)
• devm_iio_backend_register(9)

source/version sign-off: from the ./drivers/iio corner of the tree, dated October 2026, it's iio_backend_chan_enable(9) — byeee bestie 💅✨