mixart_wait...gister_value(9)

💅 mixart_wait_nice_for_register_value(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

Okay so bestie, welcome to one of those pages where the man page name got cut off mid-word (mixart_wait...gister_value(9), iconic of it honestly), but the function inside is the main character: mixart_wait_nice_for_register_value, and it's got a whole job — it waits for a value on a peudo register, and it exits with a timeout. Yes, "peudo" — that's literally how the page spells it, no cap, I'm not touching it 🫶

It's in that mixart corner of the kernel, the sound one, and it is so specific. Let's get into it ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int mixart_wait_nice_for_register_value (struct mixart_mgr *mgr , u32
offset , int is_egal , u32 value , unsigned long timeout );

That's the whole signature, verbatim, don't come for me about the line break 💀 It returns an int, it takes five things, and it's nice about the waiting (the name says nice, so… yeah).

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• mgr — pointer to the miXart manager structure. Like, the whole manager. Handed to you as a pointer. Standard.
• offset — unsigned pseudo_register base + offset of value. So it's the base of the pseudo register plus where the value actually lives. Math, but make it hardware 💅
• is_egal — wait for the equal value. That's the flag's whole personality: it's the one that says "equal". Fr fr, that's it.
• value — value. 😭 (Genuinely, that's the entire description. The page said "value" and I respect the confidence.)
• timeout — timeout in centisenconds. Yes, centisenconds — that's the page's spelling, keeping it exactly, character for character, because I do not invent units 👑 (it's a time-out, and the unit is spelled like that, okay?)

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• The kernel file ./sound/pci/mixart/mixart_hwdep.c — that's where the lore lives, go read it, iykyk 📖

Heads up bestie: this one is a timeout situation — the function says so right in the NAME section. It waits, it has a timeout, and it exits with a timeout. That's the vibe, and that's the only vibe claim the page makes, so I'm not adding lore that isn't there 🙈

And that's the page, bestie! 🌈 Cute little sign-off for you: this one lives in ./sound/pci/mixart, it's dated October 2026, and it came to you straight from the Kernel API Manual. Slay, go wait on that register 💖🎀🦋