tty_find_polling_driver(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

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

okay so picture this: it's giving kernel API manual, it's giving tty_find_polling_driver(9), and honestly? iconic. This is the page for finding the device of a polled tty, and yes we're gonna get into it. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

tty_find_polling_driver — find device of a polled tty 🦋

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

struct tty_driver * tty_find_polling_driver (char *name , int *line );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • name — the name string to match, like literally just a string and we're matching on it, that's the whole vibe 🔥
  • line — a pointer to the resulting tty line nr, so it gets filled in for you, cute right?

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what does this routine do? It returns a tty driver structure. Obsessed. But there's a catch (there's always a catch, bestie): you give it a name, AND the condition has to be met that the tty driver is capable of polled operation. That's the whole deal — name match plus polling capability, and it hands you back the driver struct. periodt. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Oh you want the whole friend group? Say less. The kernel file <pink>./drivers/tty/tty_io.c</pink> is where it's at, and here's everyone else showing up to the group chat:

ngl that's a lot of (9) and that's exactly how it should be, no cap 💀

anyway bestie, that's the page!! sourced straight from <lavender>./drivers/tty</lavender>, dated October 2026, and it's the tty_find_polling_driver(9) manual through and through 🫶 mwah, go read your kernel docs, ily, bye!! 🧚💜

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