iio_backend_...nd_chan_spec(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 iio_backend_extend_chan_spec (9) — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to the group chat where we talk about the kernel API manual page for iio_backend_extend_chan_spec(9). yes the header is doing the thing where it abbreviates itself with ... — that's just the man page being dramatic, the real name is right below 💅

✨ NAME ✨

iio_backend_extend_chan_spec — extend an IIO channel 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int iio_backend_extend_chan_spec (struct iio_backend *back , struct
iio_chan_spec *chan );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • back — the backend device, like, the one doing the extending 🫶
  • chan — the IIO channel, the main character getting extended ✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the vibe: some backends have their own little special functionalities, right? and because of that, they're literally capable of extending a frontend's channel. it's giving teamwork, it's giving "you grow, I grow" 🌈 no cap, that's the whole bit.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • a negative error number on failure 😭 (classic kernel behaviour, we respect it)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file where all this lives, bestie:

  • ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c

and the whole extended friend group of related calls (yes, all of them, I'm not skipping a single one, that's not the vibe):

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓 the source path is ./drivers/iio, and this iconic little document is dated October 2026 — so it's a whole month in the future, periodt 🧚💜

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