of_property_...tring_helper(9)

💖 of_property_...tring_helper — the Kernel API Manual tea 🫶

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for of_property_...tring_helper ✨ (yes the name is literally truncated like that, no I did not do it, the kernel did 💀). We're in the Kernel API Manual and this is a little helper function that mostly wants you to leave it alone. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

of_property_read_string_helper — a utility helper for parsing string properties 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int of_property_read_string_helper (const struct device_node *np , const
char *propname , const char **out_strs , size_t sz , int skip );

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• np — the device node you're reading the property value from 👑
• propname — the name of the property you're searching for 🔍
• out_strs — the output array of string pointers, where the results go 🧺
• sz — how many array elements you want to read 🌈
• skip — how many strings to skip over at the beginning of the list 🙈

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🍓 DESCRIPTION 🍓

Don't call this function directly. Bestie I'm so serious rn 😭 — it is a utility helper for the of_property_read_string*() family of functions, and it's doing its little behind-the-scenes job. Let the family functions handle it, iykyk 💜

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./drivers/of/property.c — and the whole friend group, no cap:

• of_property_read_bool(9)
• of_graph_is_present(9)
• of_property_count_elems_of_size(9)
• of_find_property_value_of_size(9)
• of_property_read_u8_index(9)
• of_property_read_u16_index(9)
• of_property_read_u32_index(9)
• of_property_read_u64_index(9)
• of_property_read_variable_u8_array(9)
• of_property_read_variable_u16_array(9)
• of_property_read_variable_u32_array(9)
• of_property_read_u64(9)
• of_property_read_variable_u64_array(9)
• of_property_read_string(9)
• of_property_match_string(9)
• of_graph_parse_endpoint(9)
• of_graph_get_port_by_id(9)
• of_graph_get_next_port(9)
• of_graph_get_next_port_endpoint(9)
• of_graph_get_next_endpoint(9)
• of_graph_get_endpoint_by_regs(9)
• of_graph_get_remote_endpoint(9)
• of_graph_get_port_parent(9)
• of_graph_get_remote_port_parent(9)
• of_graph_get_remote_port(9)
• of_graph_get_endpoint_count(9)
• of_graph_get_port_count(9)
• of_graph_get_remote_node(9)
• parse_prop_cells(9)
• parse_suffix_prop_cells(9)
• struct supplier_bindings(9)
• of_link_property(9)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and not call this function directly 💀💖

🎀 sign-off time: this icon was brought to you by ./drivers/of, dated October 2026, and yes the page title is still of_property_...tring_helper(9) because some things are just iconic like that 👑✨