msm_dp_link_...tatus_update(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so real quick — this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and the function name got squished in the header as msm_dp_link_...tatus_update(9) because apparently man page headers have a character limit and no chill. The actual function is msm_dp_link_process_link_status_update, and we're about to become besties with it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

msm_dp_link_process_link_status_update — literally just processes link status updates. that's the whole vibe. 💫

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int msm_dp_link_process_link_status_update (struct msm_dp_link_private
*link );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • link — the Display Port link module data. that's it, that's the whole parameter bestie 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so what this function does is it goes and checks for changes in the link status — like, for example, clock recovery being done on all lanes 👀 — and if it spots a failure or an error on the link, it triggers link training. she's proactive like that. 💅

and the return situation? if a link status update has actually been processed, you get 0 🎉. otherwise, you get -EINVAL 😭. no in-between, no gray area, we love a binary queen.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file we're living in is ./drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_link.c — that's home base 🏠✨

and here's the whole friend group, all of them icons in their own right:

ngl the SEE ALSO list is giving "and introducing… the entire cast" energy and honestly? deserved. 🌈

okay that's the page!! it lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp, it's stamped October 2026, and it's giving Kernel API Manual realness 💜💀 go forth and process those link status updates, bestie. periodt. ⭐🎀

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