sdw_prepare_stream(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so welcome to sdw_prepare_stream(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ — and the name is literally giving sdw_prepare_stream - Prepare SoundWire stream. that's the whole plot, bestie 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int sdw_prepare_stream (struct sdw_stream_runtime *stream );

that's the signature, periodt. it returns an int and takes one argument, so no surprises 💖

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• stream — Soundwire stream. that's it, that's the argument, and it's the main character here 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the actual lore is not dumped on this page, bestie — it literally says Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/stream.rst explains this API in detail. go read that file for the full tea, iykyk 📚✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group is linked here, starting with the Kernel file ./drivers/soundwire/stream.c 👑:

• Kernel file ./drivers/soundwire/stream.c
• sdw_program_port_params(9)
• sdw_enable_disable_slave_ports(9)
• sdw_enable_disable_ports(9)
• sdw_prep_deprep_ports(9)
• sdw_notify_config(9)
• sdw_program_params(9)
• sdw_ml_sync_bank_switch(9)
• sdw_slave_rt_alloc(9)
• sdw_slave_rt_config(9)
• sdw_slave_rt_free(9)
• sdw_master_rt_alloc(9)
• sdw_master_rt_config(9)
• sdw_master_rt_free(9)
• sdw_config_stream(9)
• sdw_get_slave_dpn_prop(9)
• sdw_acquire_bus_lock(9)
• sdw_release_bus_lock(9)
• sdw_enable_stream(9)
• sdw_disable_stream(9)
• sdw_deprepare_stream(9)
• sdw_alloc_stream(9)
• sdw_startup_stream(9)
• sdw_shutdown_stream(9)
• sdw_release_stream(9)
• sdw_stream_add_master(9)
• sdw_stream_remove_master(9)
• sdw_stream_add_slave(9)
• sdw_stream_remove_slave(9)

okay bye bestie 🫶 this page is from ./drivers/soundwire, dated October 2026, and it's literally sdw_prepare_stream(9) — mwah 💋✨