ishtp_get_report_descriptor(9)

💅 NAME 💅

ishtp_get_report_descriptor — bestie, this is literally the "get report descriptor" helper ✨

So real quick: this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the function we're obsessing over is ishtp_get_report_descriptor. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ishtp_get_report_descriptor (struct ishtp_cl *hid_ishtp_cl , int
index );

Like, that's the whole vibe. It returns an int, takes two things, we move 🌸

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• hid_ishtp_cl — okay so this is the client instance. The main character of the call, honestly 👑
• index — the index into the hid_descr array. Yes bestie, you gotta tell it which one 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

It's a helper function, no cap. Its whole job? Send a request off to the firmware to get the HID report descriptor of a device 🦋

That's it, that's the function. She's a small icon and she knows it ✨

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success — slay, it worked 💖
• non zero on error — not slay, something went sideways 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c — that's where she lives, iykyk 🧚

And the whole friend group, fr fr:

• report_bad_packet(9)
• process_recv(9)
• ish_cl_event_cb(9)
• hid_ishtp_set_feature(9)
• hid_ishtp_get_report(9)
• ishtp_hid_link_ready_wait(9)
• ishtp_enum_enum_devices(9)
• ishtp_get_hid_descriptor(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_init(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_deinit(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_probe(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_remove(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_reset(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_suspend(9)
• hid_ishtp_cl_resume(9)

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and get those report descriptors 💜

Signed, sealed, delivered from ./drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid — dated October 2026 — and the page itself is ishtp_get_report_descriptor(9) in case you forgot already 🙈 🎀