iio_backend_...tream_enable(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iio_backend_data_stream_enable(9) — the "let the data flow" girlie

okay so you found yourself in the Kernel API Manual, bestie, and the star of this page is iio_backend_data_stream_enable(9). Buckle up, this one's short and sweet 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

iio_backend_data_stream_enable — literally just "Enable data stream", that's the whole vibe 💫

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int iio_backend_data_stream_enable(struct iio_backend *back);

one function, one arg, no cap 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • back — the Backend device. your main character struct, the one doing the work 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this function enables the data stream over the bus interface. That's it. That's the whole flex ✨ the data starts flowing over the bus, iconic behaviour, periodt.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success — slay, it worked 💅
  • a negative error number on failure — not slay, something went wrong 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c — that's where the source lives, iykyk 📁

and the whole friend group, because this function does not exist in a vacuum:

that's the page, bestie 🌈 go enable that stream, you got this 💖

sign-off era: brought to you from ./drivers/iio, dated October 2026, and yes it's still titled iio_backend_...tream_enable(9) because the man page header had to truncate it and honestly? relatable 💀✨ 🎀

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