iio_backend_chan_status(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iio_backend_chan_status — Get the channel status ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for iio_backend_chan_status(9) — yes that (9) is the section, it's giving kernel-internals realness 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

iio_backend_chan_status — Get the channel status 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iio_backend_chan_status (struct iio_backend *back , unsigned int
chan , bool *error );

literally the whole signature, don't come for me 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • back — the Backend device 💖 like, the thing you're poking at
  • chan — the Channel number 🌈 which one of them
  • error — Error indication 💀 this is where the error info goes, bestie, it's a pointer so it can hand you the tea back

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

Get the current state of the backend channel ✨ Typically used to check if there were any errors sending/receiving data 👀 so like, vibe check on your data pipeline, no cap.

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success 🎉 negative error number on failure 😭 that's it that's the deal, periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c 📁 (the main character file fr fr)

and the whole fam, all of them, in order, no skipping 🫶:

okay that's the whole thing, mwah 💋 this manual page lives in ./drivers/iio and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ so like, future-girlie energy. bye bestie, go check your channel status 💜🦋

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