register_framebuffer(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the register_framebuffer(9) page — she lives in the Kernel API Manual, and her whole thing is registering a frame buffer device 💖.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int register_framebuffer (struct fb_info *fb_info );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fb_info — the frame buffer info structure, aka the main character of this call 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So register_framebuffer registers a frame buffer device fb_info. That's the vibe, that's the job ✨.

On success she returns zero 🫶. On error she returns a negative errno — no cap, check it.

bestie, negative errno on error, zero on success. periodt 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c — go read the source, iykyk 🔥
• unregister_framebuffer(9)
• devm_register_framebuffer(9)
• fb_set_suspend(9)
• fb_switch_outputs(9)

mwah 💋 — signed off from ./drivers/video/fbdev/core, dated October 2026, and stamped with register_framebuffer(9) energy. slay 🎀