iio_buffer_init(9)

💖 iio_buffer_init(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to another episode of the Kernel API Manual — this one's iio_buffer_init, and it's honestly so lowkey iconic. it lives in section 9 (that's the kernel API section, iykyk), and it's one of those tiny functions that just sets the vibe for everything downstream ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iio_buffer_init — Initialize the buffer structure 🎀

that's it. that's the whole job. she initializes the buffer structure. main character energy fr fr.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void iio_buffer_init (struct iio_buffer *buffer );

not me giving you the literal exact copy because code is sacred 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• buffer — bestie. bestie. this is the buffer to be initialized. that's the whole thing. hand her a buffer and she'll init it. periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

like, go read these next, no cap:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/iio/buffer_impl.h — the actual file, right there in the kernel tree, go look at it 🧚
• INDIO_BUFFER_FLAG_FIXED_WATERMARK(9) — a flag, section 9, classic
• struct iio_buffer_access_funcs(9) — the access funcs struct, very demure, very mindful
• struct iio_buffer(9) — literally the struct you're initializing, so maybe start here? 🙈
• iio_update_buffers(9) — the update cousin, she slays too

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💀 real talk: this page has no OPTIONS, no ENVIRONMENT, no EXIT STATUS, no ERRORS, no BUGS, no separate RETURN VALUE section. she's short and she knows it. don't go looking for content that isn't there — I'm not about to invent kernel behaviour, that would be so not the move 😭

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶

cute little sign-off: this one comes from the ./include/linux/iio source, dated October 2026, and it's page iio_buffer_init(9) all day every day ⭐

go init a buffer. you got this. 💜