STRUCT VIMC_STREAM(9)

💅 struct vimc_stream(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's all about struct vimc_stream — literally the struct that represents a stream in the pipeline. no cap, it's a whole vibe. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

struct vimc_stream — the struct that represents a stream in the pipeline. that's it, that's the whole name line, slay. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct vimc_stream {
    struct media_pipeline pipe;
    struct vimc_ent_device
*ved_pipeline[VIMC_STREAMER_PIPELINE_MAX_SIZE];
    unsigned int pipe_size;
    struct task_struct *kthread;
 };

(yes the wrapping is a little feral, that's just how it is, don't come for me 💀)

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🫶 Members 🫶

• pipe — the media pipeline object that's associated with this stream. it's giving "official paperwork for the stream" energy. 📄
• ved_pipeline — an array containing all the entities participating in the stream 💖. the order goes from a video device (usually a capture device) where stream_on was called, all the way to the entity generating the first base image to be processed in the pipeline. so like, back-to-front through the whole glow-up chain. ✨
• pipe_size — literally just the size of ved_pipeline. iconic, concise, no notes. 🎀
• kthread — the thread that generates the frames of the stream. the main character doing the actual work tbh. 🔥

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🦋 Description 🦋

so when the user calls stream_on in a video device, struct vimc_stream is what gets used to keep track of all the entities and subdevices that generate and process frames for the stream. it's the group chat admin of the pipeline — everyone's in there, everyone's accounted for, no one gets left on read. 💅🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.h — go read it, iykyk 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left behind. this lil beauty lives at source/version ./drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc, dated October 2026, and it's struct vimc_stream(9) through and through. mwah 💖✨🌈