media_reques...l_completion(9)

💅 media_reques...l_completion(9) — bestie edition

okay so you're reading the Kernel API Manual (yes, the actual one, we're being fancy today ✨) and you've landed on media_reques...l_completion(9). yes the title is abbreviated with dots, no that's not a typo, that's just how the manpage printer decided to do it. let's go 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

media_request_mark_manual_completion — the "actually, I'll finish it" flag. it enables manual completion 🙋‍♀️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void media_request_mark_manual_completion (struct media_request *req );

that's it. that's the whole thing. returns nothing, takes one thing. slay 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• req — The request. that's it, that's the whole description, the request in question, the main character of this function 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does this actually do, bestie? it marks the request as one that has to be manually completed — meaning somebody out there is gonna have to call media_request_manual_complete themselves. no auto-pilot, no hands-free, you're driving this thing 🚗✨

and here's the important bit, no cap: this function shall be called in the req_queue callback. like, that's the place. that's where it goes. if you're calling it anywhere else we need to have a conversation 🙈

⚠️ fr fr, the req_queue callback thing is a shall, not a "whenever you feel like it". respect the callback 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

a whole little friend group of references, all from the kernel file ./include/media/media-request.h. go read them, they're iconic, every single one 👑

• enum media_request_state(9)
• struct media_request(9)
• media_request_lock_for_access(9)
• media_request_unlock_for_access(9)
• media_request_lock_for_update(9)
• media_request_unlock_for_update(9)
• media_request_get(9)
• media_request_put(9)
• media_request_get_by_fd(9)
• media_request_alloc(9)
• media_request_manual_complete(9)
• struct media_request_object_ops(9)
• struct media_request_object(9)
• media_request_object_get(9)
• media_request_object_put(9)
• media_request_object_find(9)
• media_request_object_init(9)
• media_request_object_bind(9)
• media_request_object_unbind(9)
• media_request_object_complete(9)

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💀 and that's the page!! this came out of ./include/media and it's dated October 2026 — yes, the future, we're serving time-travel realness ⭐ byeee bestie, go complete your requests manually 🧚💜