STRUCT IIO_CHANNEL_INFO(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the struct iio_channel_info(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this struct is literally the info card for a given channel, and we’re gonna go through every lil field together — no skips, no cap 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

struct iio_channel_info — information about a given channel 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

       struct iio_channel_info {
           char *name;
           char *generic_name;
           float scale;
           float offset;
           unsigned index;
           unsigned bytes;
           unsigned bits_used;
           unsigned shift;
           uint64_t mask;
           unsigned be;
           char format;
           unsigned location;
        };

🌸 Members 🌸

okay so here’s the whole cast of fields, and yes every single one is invited to the group chat:

• name — the channel name 💖
• generic_name — the general name for the channel type ✨
• scale — the scale factor you apply when converting to si units 🎀
• offset — the offset you apply when converting to si units 🦋
• index — the channel index in the buffer output 🌸
• bytes — how many bytes it occupies in the buffer output 💅
• bits_used — the number of valid bits of data 🫶
• shift — how many bits to shift the data right by, before applying the bit mask 😭
• mask — a bit mask for the raw output 🔥
• be — a flag if the data is big endian 💀
• format — the format of the raw value 👑
• location — the data offset for this channel inside the buffer, in bytes 🍓

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./tools/iio/iio_utils.h — go peek, iykyk 🧚

Source/version: ./tools/iio · date: October 2026 · manual: struct iio_channel_info(9) — that’s the whole page, bestie, mwah 💋