of_property_match_string(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to of_property_match_string(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one is lowkey iconic: it finds a string in a list and hands you the index, no cap ✨

💖 NAME 💖

of_property_match_string — Find string in a list and return index 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int of_property_match_string (const struct device_node *np , const char
       *propname , const char *string );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • np — pointer to the node containing the string list property 🦋
  • propname — string list property name 🌸
  • string — pointer to the string to search for in the string list 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Search for an exact match of string in a device node property which is a string of lists. That's the whole vibe check: exact match, string list property, index result ✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

On success, you get the index of the first occurrence of the string 👑

But bestie, sometimes it's giving error codes 😭:

  • -EINVAL — the property does not exist
  • -ENODATA — the property does not have a value
  • -EILSEQ — the string is not null-terminated within the length of the property data

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/of/property.c and the whole squad:

mwah 💋 this page's source/version is ./drivers/of and its date is October 2026 — of_property_match_string(9) out 💅🫶

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