intel_dp_li...sable_config(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's all about intel_dp_link_caps_disable_config, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibilities" 🎀

🌸 NAME

intel_dp_link_caps_disable_config — literally just disable a configuration 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

bool intel_dp_link_caps_disable_config (struct intel_dp_link_caps
       *link_caps , const struct intel_dp_link_config *config );

🫶 ARGUMENTS

  • link_caps — the link capabilities state, aka the main character of this whole operation 👑
  • config — the configuration you're about to disable, no cap 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION

So here's the vibe: you call this and it disables the configuration identified by config. Iconic. It takes that config and removes it from the set of allowed configurations — like removing someone from the group chat, but for hardware states 💀

One thing though, and this is important: the disabling shouldn't leave the remaining configuration set empty. so like, don't yeet the last one out, that's not the move 😭

And once a config is disabled, it remains disallowed until one of these happens:

  • intel_dp_link_caps is called with reset=true 🔄
  • the sink capabilities change 🌈
  • or intel_dp_link_caps_reset is called ✨

and btw, each of these things happens after a new sink is connected or the currently connected sink changes its capabilities — so the state does eventually freshen up, you're not stuck in the past forever 🫶

⭐ RETURN

  • true — if config was valid and the derived state was updated 💖 slay, it worked
  • false — if config was invalid, or if the remaining configuration set would remain empty 🙈 nope, not happening

🔥 SEE ALSO

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_link_caps.c — go read the source, iykyk 👑

bestie reminder: this all lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display, dated October 2026, filed under intel_dp_li...sable_config(9) 🎀 that's the whole page, mwah 💋✨
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