intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe(9)

💅 intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so welcome to the group chat, this is the intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe(9) manual page, and yes it's giving kernel-core realness ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe — Prepare an MST link for topology probing. periodt. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe (struct intel_dp *intel_dp );

literally the whole signature, copied exactly, no cap 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• intel_dp — the DP port object 💖 that's it, that's the argument, she's the main character here.

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💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So what this does is prepare an MST link for topology probing, and it programs the target link parameters to DPCD. 🎀

This step is lowkey a requirement of the enumeration of path resources during probing. Like, not optional, bestie — it's part of the whole probing situation. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c
• intel_dp_mst_atomic_check_link(9)
• intel_dp_mst_add_topology_state_for_connector(9)
• intel_dp_mst_add_topology_state_for_crtc(9)
• intel_dp_mst_crtc_needs_modeset(9)

all the linked besties, go read them too, iykyk 🌈

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and that's the page, slay 💜 this was brought to you by ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display, October 2026, and the icon herself, intel_dp_mst_prepare_probe(9) — bye bestie, mwah 🍓✨