ir_nec_encode(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet ir_nec_encode(9) from the Kernel API Manual 📟💖 — she’s here to Encode a scancode as a stream of raw events, and honestly? iconic behavior ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ir_nec_encode (enum rc_proto protocol , u32 scancode , struct
       ir_raw_event *events , unsigned int max );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• protocol — the protocol to encode 🫶
• scancode — the scancode to encode ✨
• events — array of raw ir events to write into 💅
• max — maximum size of events 🎀

💖 RETURN 💖

The number of events written, periodt 💅. But if there isn’t enough space in the array to fit the encoding, you get -ENOBUFS 😭. In this case all max events will have been written — yes, even in the sad ending, bestie 🫶.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/rc/ir-nec-decoder.c 📁
• ir_nec_decode(9) 🔍
• ir_nec_scancode_to_raw(9) 🔍

signing off from source/version ./drivers/media/rc on October 2026 — mwah 💋✨