snd_hda_gen_spec_init(9)

💅 snd_hda_gen_spec_init(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is snd_hda_gen_spec_init(9) — yes the whole thing is named after the function, it's giving main character energy fr fr ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

snd_hda_gen_spec_init — initialize hda_gen_spec struct

like, it wakes the struct up and gets it ready for the day 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int snd_hda_gen_spec_init (struct hda_gen_spec *spec );

that's it. one function, one pointer, one int coming back at you 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• spec — the hda_gen_spec object you're about to initialize. this is the thing getting the glow-up ✨ hand it over and it gets set up.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Initialize the given hda_gen_spec object.

that's genuinely the whole description, no cap — it takes the hda_gen_spec you passed in and initializes it. simple, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin 🎀

ngl the manpage is short and sweet here, so don't go reading extra behaviour into it — init means init, periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives at ./sound/hda/codecs/generic.c, and the whole friend group is:

• snd_hda_gen_add_kctl(9)
• snd_hda_get_path_idx(9)
• snd_hda_get_path_from_idx(9)
• snd_hda_add_new_path(9)
• snd_hda_activate_path(9)
• snd_hda_gen_add_mute_led_cdev(9)
• snd_hda_gen_add_micmute_led_cdev(9)
• snd_hda_gen_fix_pin_power(9)
• snd_hda_gen_update_outputs(9)
• snd_hda_gen_hp_automute(9)
• snd_hda_gen_line_automute(9)
• snd_hda_gen_mic_autoswitch(9)
• snd_hda_gen_path_power_filter(9)
• snd_hda_gen_stream_pm(9)
• snd_hda_gen_shutup_speakers(9)
• snd_hda_gen_parse_auto_config(9)
• snd_hda_gen_build_controls(9)
• snd_hda_gen_build_pcms(9)
• snd_hda_gen_init(9)
• snd_hda_gen_remove(9)
• snd_hda_gen_check_power_status(9)

go read them all, iykyk 💜

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and that's the tea ☕ this beauty comes from ./sound/hda/codecs, dated October 2026 — shoutout to the source and version for keeping it real, mwah 💋 🌈⭐