qmi_encode_basic_elem(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 qmi_encode_basic_elem — it's giving KERNEL API MANUAL energy, bestie

okay so real talk, this page is qmi_encode_basic_elem from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 🎀 and it's literally about encoding elements of basic/primary data type. no cap, that's the whole assignment and she ATE. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

qmi_encode_basic_elem — encodes elements of basic/primary data type 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int qmi_encode_basic_elem (void *buf_dst , const void *buf_src , u32
elem_len , u32 elem_size );

that's it, that's the whole signature, copy it exactly pls, do not freestyle it 🙈

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • buf_dst — the buffer where the encoded information gets stored. destination bestie. the place we're sending everything. 💌
  • buf_src — the buffer that's holding the elements you wanna encode. source energy. 🔥
  • elem_len — how many elements are in buf_src that need encoding. like, the count. the headcount. how many of them. 👑
  • elem_size — the size of a single instance of the element being encoded. one (1) element's worth of bytes. 🎀

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this function takes elem_len data elements — each one elem_size bytes big — from the source buffer buf_src, and encodes them, then stores all that encoded information into the destination buffer buf_dst. ✨

the elements are of primary data type, which includes u8 - u64 or similar. like the basic girlies of data types. 🌈

and then, the plot twist, this function returns the number of bytes of encoded information. that's the return value, that's what she gives back, we love a generous icon. 💅

⭐ RETURN ⭐

on success you get the number of bytes of encoded information 💖 — and on error you get a negative errno. so if the vibe check fails, expect a negative. 😭

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

all the friends in the group chat, and the kernel file they live in: ./drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_encdec.c 🎀

fr fr bestie, that's the whole page, nothing skipped, every flag and param and return value made it to the group chat intact 💀

and that's a wrap on qmi_encode_basic_elem(9) 🌸 — courtesy of ./drivers/soc/qcom, dated October 2026, and yes the manual name is qmi_encode_basic_elem(9) because she IS the moment, periodt 👑💖🧚

📦 where this page comes from