iio_backend_has_caps(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 iio_backend_has_caps(9) — the vibe check for your backend 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the iio_backend_has_caps(9) page — that's the manual name, and yeah, it's a kernel API manual situation, so grab a lil snack and let's go 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

iio_backend_has_caps — Check if backend has specific capabilities 👑

Literally what it says on the tin: you ask a backend "do you have these skills" and it tells you yes or no. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool iio_backend_has_caps (struct iio_backend *back , u32 caps );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • back — Backend device. this is the lil guy you're checking up on 🫶
  • caps — Capabilities to check. the whole list of vibes you want it to have ✨

💅 RETURN 💅

Returns True if backend has all the requested capabilities, and false otherwise. and yeah — all of them, bestie, it's not an "any of these" situation, it's an "every single one or it's a no" situation. the way that works is so main character of it honestly 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

aaaand here's the whole friend group 🌈 the kernel file lives at ./drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c, and these are all the siblings:

like, that's a lot of siblings, but they all slay in their own way 💜

ngl this page is short and sweet and that's the whole point — it's one boolean, one question, one answer. no notes. 🧚

and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀 this came out of ./drivers/iio and it's dated October 2026 — see you in the next manpage, mwah 💖✨

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