screen_info_pci_dev(9)

🎀 screen_info_pci_dev(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this page is short, sweet, and lowkey iconic. It's all about returning the PCI parent device that contains screen_info's framebuffer. no cap, that's the whole vibe 💅

✨ NAME ✨

screen_info_pci_dev — return the PCI parent device that contains screen_info's framebuffer 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct pci_dev * screen_info_pci_dev (const struct screen_info *si );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• si — the screen_info 👑 literally the thing you're passing in

💖 RETURN 💖

This returns the screen_info's parent device, or NULL on success — yes bestie, NULL on success, that's what it says — or a pointer-encoded errno value otherwise.

important vibe check: the value NULL is not an error. It's just signaling that no PCI device has been found. periodt 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/video/screen_info_pci.c 📁

cute little sign-off 💋: this page comes from ./drivers/video, and it's dated October 2026. mwah ✨