iio_dma_buffer_enable(9)

✨ iio_dma_buffer_enable(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for iio_dma_buffer_enable 💖 this one is lowkey iconic.

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💅 NAME 💅

iio_dma_buffer_enable — Enable DMA buffer ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int iio_dma_buffer_enable (struct iio_buffer *buffer , struct iio_dev
       *indio_dev );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• buffer — IIO buffer to enable 💜
• indio_dev — IIO device the buffer is attached to 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen: this needs to be called when the device that the buffer is attached to starts sampling. typically, it should be the iio_buffer_access_ops enable callback. periodt ✨

it will allocate the DMA buffers and start the DMA transfers. slay 💅

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file: ./drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dma.c 🎀
• iio_dma_buffer_block_done(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_block_list_abort(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_request_update(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_disable(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_read(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_write(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_usage(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_set_bytes_per_datum(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_set_length(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_init(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_exit(9)
• iio_dma_buffer_release(9) 🌈

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🫶 that’s the whole page, bestie! source/version: ./drivers/iio/buffer 💖 date: October 2026 ✨