intel_plane_duplicate_state(9)

💅 intel_plane_duplicate_state(9) — the Kernel API Manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to the intel_plane_duplicate_state page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of a serve — it's the little helper that makes a copy of your plane state so you can go mess with the new one without touching the original. self-care, but for structs 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

intel_plane_duplicate_state — duplicate plane state. that's it, that's the whole vibe. duplicate plane state. copy it. twin it. make it a matching set 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct drm_plane_state * intel_plane_duplicate_state (struct drm_plane
*plane );

like, you hand it a plane, it hands you back a sparkly new struct drm_plane_state *. iconic behavior tbh 👑

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• plane — the drm plane. that's your girl right there, the one whose state we're about to clone 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what actually happens? intel_plane_duplicate_state allocates and returns a copy of the plane state for the plane you specified — and not just the common part, the Intel-specific part too. both of them. together. matching. it's giving "you and your bestie wearing the same outfit but make it a struct" 💖✨

no cap, that's the entire description. short king of a manpage 👑

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

the newly allocated plane state, all fresh and ready to be yours 🌸

or NULL on failure 😭 which, yeah, sad, but at least you know.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_plane.c — that's where she lives 🏠
• atomic plane helpers(9)
• intel_plane_destroy(9)
• intel_plane_destroy_state(9)
• intel_prepare_plane_fb(9)
• intel_cleanup_plane_fb(9)

the whole little friend group fr fr 🫶 go say hi to all of them.

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and that's the page!! 🎀 this queen comes to you from ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display, version-dated October 2026, and she answers to the name intel_plane_duplicate_state(9). mwah 💋💜