iio_get_time_ns(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so we are in the Kernel API Manual, and this page is all about iio_get_time_ns(9), bestie. It is the utility function to get a time stamp for events etc — no cap, that is literally its whole job. 🕰️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s64 iio_get_time_ns (const struct iio_dev *indio_dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• indio_dev — the device. That is it. That is the whole argument, and she is iconic for keeping it simple. 💅

💖 RETURN 💖

It hands you back the Timestamp of the event in nanoseconds. ⏱️✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file ./drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c is the main-character location for this whole situation, and these related pages are all part of the friend group: 🫶

• iio_device_id(9)
• iio_buffer_enabled(9)
• iio_find_channel_from_si(9)
• iio_device_set_clock(9)
• iio_device_get_clock(9)
• iio_read_mount_matrix(9)
• iio_format_value(9)
• __iio_str_to_fixpoint(9)
• iio_str_to_fixpoint(9)
• iio_free_chan_devattr_list(9)
• iio_device_alloc(9)
• iio_device_free(9)
• devm_iio_device_alloc(9)
• iio_chrdev_open(9)
• iio_chrdev_release(9)
• iio_active_scan_mask_index(9)
• iio_device_unregister(9)
• __iio_dev_mode_lock(9)
• __iio_dev_mode_unlock(9)
• iio_device_get_current_mode(9)

later, bestie — this page came from ./drivers/iio and is dated October 2026 🫶💜🎀