media_pad_remote_pad_first(9)

💅 media_pad_remote_pad_first(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual one, bestie

okay so this whole page lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally called media_pad_remote_pad_first(9). it's a tiny little function but she's connected to everyone, iykyk 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

media_pad_remote_pad_first — finds the very first pad chilling at the remote end of a link 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct media_pad * media_pad_remote_pad_first (const struct media_pad
*pad );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• pad — the pad sitting at the local end of the link, bestie. that's the one we start from 💅

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what she does is: she searches for a remote pad that's connected to the pad you handed her. how? by iterating over all the links that either originate at that pad or terminate at it — and she keeps going until she hits an enabled link. no cap, that's the whole vibe check. 🧚

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💖 RETURN 💖

she returns a pointer to the pad at the remote end of the first found enabled link. and if there's no enabled link to be found at all? she gives you NULL 😭💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad fr fr, and the kernel file ./include/media/media-entity.h:

• enum media_gobj_type(9)
• struct media_gobj(9)
• struct media_entity_enum(9)
• struct media_graph(9)
• struct media_pipeline(9)
• struct media_pipeline_pad(9)
• struct media_pipeline_pad_iter(9)
• struct media_pipeline_entity_iter(9)
• struct media_link(9)
• enum media_pad_signal_type(9)
• struct media_pad(9)
• struct media_entity_operations(9)
• enum media_entity_type(9)
• struct media_entity(9)
• media_entity_for_each_pad(9)
• struct media_interface(9)
• struct media_intf_devnode(9)
• media_entity_id(9)
• media_type(9)
• media_id(9)
• media_gobj_gen_id(9)
• is_media_entity_v4l2_video_device(9)
• is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev(9)
• media_entity_enum_init(9)
• media_entity_enum_cleanup(9)
• media_entity_enum_zero(9)
• media_entity_enum_set(9)
• media_entity_enum_clear(9)
• media_entity_enum_test(9)
• media_entity_enum_test_and_set(9)
• media_entity_enum_empty(9)
• media_entity_enum_intersects(9)
• gobj_to_entity(9)
• gobj_to_pad(9)
• gobj_to_link(9)
• gobj_to_intf(9)
• intf_to_devnode(9)
• media_gobj_create(9)
• media_gobj_destroy(9)
• media_entity_pads_init(9)
• media_entity_cleanup(9)
• media_get_pad_index(9)
• media_create_pad_link(9)
• media_create_pad_links(9)
• media_entity_remove_links(9)
• __media_entity_setup_link(9)
• media_entity_setup_link(9)
• media_entity_find_link(9)
• media_pad_remote_pad_unique(9)
• media_entity_remote_pad_unique(9)
• media_entity_remote_source_pad_unique(9)
• media_pad_is_streaming(9)
• media_entity_is_streaming(9)
• media_entity_pipeline(9)
• media_pad_pipeline(9)
• media_entity_get_fwnode_pad(9)
• media_graph_walk_init(9)
• media_graph_walk_cleanup(9)
• media_graph_walk_start(9)
• media_graph_walk_next(9)
• media_pipeline_start(9)
• __media_pipeline_start(9)
• media_pipeline_stop(9)
• __media_pipeline_stop(9)
• media_pipeline_for_each_pad(9)
• media_pipeline_entity_iter_init(9)
• media_pipeline_entity_iter_cleanup(9)
• media_pipeline_for_each_entity(9)
• media_pipeline_alloc_start(9)
• media_devnode_create(9)
• media_devnode_remove(9)
• media_create_intf_link(9)
• __media_remove_intf_link(9)
• media_remove_intf_link(9)
• __media_remove_intf_links(9)
• media_remove_intf_links(9)
• media_entity_call(9)
• media_create_ancillary_link(9)
• __media_entity_next_link(9)
• for_each_media_entity_data_link(9)

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quick note bestie: she only cares about enabled links. disabled links simply do not exist to her. main character energy only 💅✨

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and that's the page!! 🎀 it comes at you from the source dir ./include/media, dated October 2026, and it's filed under media_pad_remote_pad_first(9) in the Kernel API Manual. mwah, go read the graph docs, ily 🫶💖