of_changeset...string_array(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, we are literally in the Kernel API Manual and the page is of_changeset...string_array(9) — yes, that's the header vibe, and you found it 💖. The function itself is of_changeset_add_prop_string_array, and it does exactly one iconic thing: Add a string list property to a changeset. periodt.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int of_changeset_add_prop_string_array (struct of_changeset *ocs ,
struct device_node *np , const char *prop_name , const char * const
*str_array , size_t sz );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ocs — changeset pointer. your changeset bestie 🫶
• np — device node pointer. the node in question ✨
• prop_name — name of the property to be added. name it, queen 💅
• str_array — pointer to an array of null terminated strings. yes, an array of null terminated strings, exactly like it says 🍓
• sz — number of string array elements. count ’em, bestie 🔥

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Create a string list property and add it to a changeset. that's the whole assignment 💖. it's giving "make a string list property, then put it in the changeset" and honestly? iconic. lowkey no extra lore needed here 🌈.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, a negative error value in case of an error. no cap: success is zero, and errors go negative 😭👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/of/dynamic.c — plus these besties right here:

• of_node_get(9)
• of_node_put(9)
• of_attach_node(9)
• of_detach_node(9)
• of_node_release(9)
• __of_prop_dup(9)
• __of_node_dup(9)
• of_changeset_create_node(9)
• of_changeset_init(9)
• of_changeset_destroy(9)
• of_changeset_apply(9)
• of_changeset_revert(9)
• of_changeset_action(9)
• of_changeset_add_prop_string(9)
• of_changeset_add_prop_u32_array(9)
• of_changeset_add_prop_bool(9)
• of_changeset_update_prop_string(9)

source/version vibes: ./drivers/of · date: October 2026 — bye bestie, go add those string arrays and slay 💖✨🎀