iio_backend_...ransfer_addr(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iio_backend_...ransfer_addr(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie ✨

okay so. welcome to the glow-up of this man page from the Kernel API Manual. the title is truncated because the real function name is a whole mouthful, and we're gonna get into it. grab a boba 🧋, this one's short and sweet.

🌸 NAME 🌸

iio_backend_data_transfer_addr — Set data address. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic, honestly 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iio_backend_data_transfer_addr (struct iio_backend *back , u32
address );

like literally just hand it a backend and an address and it'll do its little thing 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • back — the Backend device. your main character struct, the one doing the work 💖
  • address — the Data register address. the actual spot in question, no cap 📍

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Some devices may need to inform the backend about an address where to read or write the data.

that's the vibe. not every device, just some — they gotta tell the backend where the data party's happening so it can read or write there. iykyk 🌈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • a negative error number on failure 😭 (not me getting a negative number again)

🌷 SEE ALSO 🌷

the kernel file we're living in: ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c

and the whole friend group, no one left out (respect the roster fr fr):

like… the way that's 37 functions 😭 ate and left no crumbs 💀

ok bestie one lil note: the function name in the header is cut off (iio_backend_...ransfer_addr), but the NAME section is the full thing — iio_backend_data_transfer_addr. don't let the truncation gaslight you 🙈

and that's the page!! brought to you by the fine folks at ./drivers/iio, dated October 2026 — see you in the next man page, mwah 💜🎀🦋

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