STRUCT HW_PROBER_ENTRY(9)

🌸 struct hw_prober_entry(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for this absolute little legend: struct hw_prober_entry. It’s the struct that holds an entry for the hardware prober — very niche, very useful, very demure. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

struct hw_prober_entry — holds an entry for the hardware prober. literally that’s the whole job. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

       struct hw_prober_entry {
           const char *compatible;
           int (*prober)(struct device *dev, const void *data);
           const void *data;
        };

💖 Members 💖

okay, the squad of fields, no cap:

• compatible — compatible string to match against the machine. it’s giving “are you the one?” energy. 🦋
• prober — prober function to call when machine matches. yep, that’s the function bestie. 🔥
• data — extra data for the prober function. lil bonus bag of stuff. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_of_hw_prober.c — go read the source, iykyk. 🌈

source/version vibes: ./drivers/platform/chrome, dated October 2026. mwah 💋