rc_keydown_notimeout(9)

💅 rc_keydown_notimeout(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual glow-up of rc_keydown_notimeout(9) 🎀 this one is literally about telling the kernel "hey, a button got pressed on the remote" and then not auto-scheduling the key release. yes queen, you're in charge of the keyup yourself. main character energy fr fr 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

rc_keydown_notimeout — generates an input event for a key press without an automatic keyup event at a later time 🫶

like, no cap, the whole personality of this function is the notimeout part. no auto-keyup, that's on you 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void rc_keydown_notimeout (struct rc_dev *dev , enum rc_proto protocol ,
u64 scancode , u8 toggle );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• dev — the struct rc_dev descriptor of the device 💖 it's giving "the remote control's whole identity"
• protocol — the protocol for the keypress 🌸
• scancode — the scancode for the keypress ⭐
• toggle — the toggle value (protocol dependent — and if the protocol doesn't support toggle values, this should be set to zero, no exceptions bestie 💀)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this routine is used to signal that a key has been pressed on the remote control 🎀 one job, done iconically.

⚠️ but here's the plot twist: the driver must manually call rc_keyup at a later stage. that's right — no automatic keyup is coming to save you. you booked this appointment yourself, bestie 😭 you gotta release the key on your own time, iykyk 💅

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c — and the whole friend group 👑

• scancode_to_u64(9)
• ir_create_table(9)
• ir_free_table(9)
• ir_resize_table(9)
• ir_update_mapping(9)
• ir_establish_scancode(9)
• ir_setkeycode(9)
• ir_setkeytable(9)
• ir_lookup_by_scancode(9)
• ir_getkeycode(9)
• rc_g_keycode_from_table(9)
• ir_do_keyup(9)
• rc_keyup(9)
• ir_timer_keyup(9)
• ir_timer_repeat(9)
• rc_repeat(9)
• ir_do_keydown(9)
• rc_keydown(9)
• rc_validate_scancode(9)
• rc_validate_filter(9)
• struct rc_filter_attribute(9)
• show_protocols(9)
• parse_protocol_change(9)
• store_protocols(9)
• show_filter(9)
• store_filter(9)
• show_wakeup_protocols(9)
• store_wakeup_protocols(9)

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💖 that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💖

sign-off time 🎀 this cutie lives in ./drivers/media/rc, dated October 2026, and it's page rc_keydown_notimeout(9) of the Kernel API Manual. slay, go press some buttons responsibly 🦋✨