tasdevice_ge...e_profile_id(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… tasdevice_get_capture_profile_id(9) β€” like, the Kernel API Manual page you actually wanna read πŸŽ€

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is tasdevice_get_capture_profile_id. yes the header truncates it to tasdevice_ge...e_profile_id(9) because terminal columns are haters, but we know her full name and we're obsessed. πŸ’–


✨ NAME ✨

tasdevice_get_capture_profile_id β€” reports the current active capture profile ID back to user space 🫢

Like, that's her whole job. She reads the vibes (the active profile ID) and hands them to user space. Iconic behaviour, no notes. 🌸


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tasdevice_get_capture_profile_id (struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol ,
struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol );

Look at that signature. Lowkey gorgeous. πŸ’…


✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • kcontrol β€” the ALSA kcontrol structure, handed down from the ALSA core like a little care package from upstairs πŸ“¦βœ¨
  • ucontrol β€” the user-space control element value buffer, and this is where you write the result back. she's the delivery girl fr fr πŸŽ€

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea, bestie: this function makes sure the profile ID it returns is always clamped inside the valid range advertised by the info callback. always. no cap. πŸ”₯

The whole point is preventing accidental invalid values from being exposed to applications even if the internal driver state is temporarily inconsistent. like, the driver might be going through it rn 😭 but the apps will never know, because this getter keeps it cute and in-range. that's called professionalism. πŸ‘‘

It returns 0 on a successful fill of the control value, and no error conditions are defined for this getter callback. zero. none. she doesn't do errors, she does success. periodt. πŸ’€βœ¨

ngl this is one of those "quietly protecting everyone from chaos" functions and honestly? main character energy. 🌈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨


alright bestie, that's the whole page, every last detail intact and nothing skipped πŸ“ source: ./sound/soc/codecs, dated October 2026, living in the Kernel API Manual β€” mwah, go read the SEE ALSOs, ily, bye! πŸ’œπŸ§šβ­

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