iioutils_break_up_name(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for iioutils_break_up_name(9) — this icon’s whole job is to extract the generic name from the full channel name. that’s it, that’s the mission, and it is lowkey iconic for it 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iioutils_break_up_name (const char *full_name , char **generic_name
       );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• full_name — the full channel name, aka the whole name you’re handing over.
• generic_name — the output generic channel name, aka where the extracted generic name goes.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This function returns 0 on success. if the string extraction fails, it returns a negative error code. no cap: success is 0, failure is a negative error code. periodt. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./tools/iio/iio_utils.c

• iioutils_get_type(9)
• iioutils_get_param_float(9)
• bsort_channel_array_by_index(9)
• build_channel_array(9)
• find_type_by_name(9)
• write_sysfs_int(9)
• write_sysfs_int_and_verify(9)
• write_sysfs_string_and_verify(9)
• write_sysfs_string(9)
• read_sysfs_posint(9)
• read_sysfs_float(9)
• read_sysfs_string(9)

xoxo, this little page comes from source/version ./tools/iio, dated October 2026, and it’s signing off as iioutils_break_up_name(9) 💫🫶