sdw_startup_stream(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 sdw_startup_stream(9)

okay bestie, so this is a Kernel API Manual page for sdw_startup_stream(9) — yes, the SoundWire one, the driver-API-side one, not the ALSA one, iykyk ✨ consider this your VIP lanyard into the kernel.

✨ NAME ✨

sdw_startup_stream — literally "Startup SoundWire stream" 🎀 she boots the stream, that's the whole job ngl

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int sdw_startup_stream (void *sdw_substream );

like, returns an int, takes one void * — she's simple, she's direct, she ate 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • sdw_substream — the Soundwire stream 🦋 that's the whole parameter, bestie, one (1) singular stream, she does not accept friends, no plus-ones, no entourage

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what does she do? she starts up the SoundWire stream, periodt 👑

and if you want the full lore — the whole deep-dive, the annotated director's cut — that lives in:

Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/stream.rst

that file explains this API in detail, no cap 📖✨ so go read it if you want the extended universe. this manpage is giving "trailer", that doc is giving "three-hour film" 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file lives at:

./drivers/soundwire/stream.c

and here's the whole friend group, all of them, every single one — nobody gets left out of this group chat 🫶

ok that's the page, go touch some SoundWire registers bestie 💜

and that's a wrap, mwah 💋 — this one came from ./drivers/soundwire, dated October 2026, so she's fresh, she's current, she's iconic 👑⭐

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