iio_backend_data_format_set(9)

🎀 iio_backend_data_format_set (9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for iio_backend_data_format_set — this is the function that handles configuring the channel data format, and yes she has main character energy 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

iio_backend_data_format_set — Configure the channel data format ✨ ngl the name is literally the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iio_backend_data_format_set (struct iio_backend *back , unsigned int
       chan , const struct iio_backend_data_fmt *data );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• back — the backend device, obvi 🫶
• chan — the channel number
• data — the data format

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This one properly configures a channel with respect to the expected data format. A struct iio_backend_data_fmt must be passed with the settings — like, it is not optional, bestie. The struct is carrying the settings, and the function needs them. Periodt. 💅

👑 RETURN 👑

0 on success, negative error number on failure. that's the vibe check, and failure is not slaying 😭🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole reference friend group is lowkey huge, so here's every single one, no skips:

• Kernel file ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c
• iio_backend_debugfs_add(9)
• iio_backend_debugfs_print_chan_status(9)
• iio_backend_chan_enable(9)
• iio_backend_chan_disable(9)
• iio_backend_disable(9)
• iio_backend_enable(9)
• devm_iio_backend_enable(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)

mwah 💋 this page is filed under ./drivers/iio and dated October 2026, and it's the iio_backend_data_format_set(9) entry in the Kernel API Manual — bye bestie, stay slaying 🫶🎀