q6afe_port_start(9)

🎀 q6afe_port_start — the Kernel API Manual moment 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the q6afe_port_start(9) page ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? she's short but she matters. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

q6afe_port_start — start a afe port 👑

(yes, "a afe" — that's literally what the original says, and we respect the original's whole vibe, no cap 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int q6afe_port_start (struct q6afe_port *port );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. short king energy 👑

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• port — the instance of the port you wanna start, bestie 🌈 hand her over and she goes.

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💫 RETURN 💫

Will be an negative on packet size on success 😭 yes we know that's a wild sentence. it's giving "the docs have lore". but the facts stay facts: negative on packet size on success 💀

okay but fr fr, copy the semantics straight from the page — a negative value tied to packet size, on success. that's the documented behaviour, and we're not out here inventing new behaviour 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6afe.c 📁
• struct afe_param_id_usb_audio_dev_params(9)
• struct afe_param_id_usb_audio_dev_lpcm_fmt(9)
• struct afe_param_id_usb_audio_svc_interval(9)
• q6afe_get_port_id(9)
• q6afe_port_stop(9)
• q6afe_slim_port_prepare(9)
• q6afe_tdm_port_prepare(9)
• afe_port_send_usb_dev_param(9)
• q6afe_usb_port_prepare(9)
• q6afe_hdmi_port_prepare(9)
• q6afe_i2s_port_prepare(9)
• q6afe_cdc_dma_port_prepare(9)
• q6afe_port_get_from_id(9)
• q6afe_port_put(9)

like, that's a whole friend group right there 🫶 go read all of them, iykyk 💜

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that's the whole page, babe — genuinely iconic of you to read it all the way through 🧚 this cutie comes from ./sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6, dated October 2026 — mwah, see you in the next man page 💋✨🌸