ubi_init_vid_buf(9)

✨ ubi_init_vid_buf — the manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, this one is a kernel API manual page — ubi_init_vid_buf(9) — and it's genuinely short, so we're gonna get through it together, no cap 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ubi_init_vid_buf — literally just: initialize a VID buffer. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ubi_init_vid_buf (const struct ubi_device *ubi , struct
ubi_vid_io_buf *vidb , void *buf );

so it returns void (nothing back, she's doing it for the love of the game), and it takes three things. keep reading, i got you 🫶

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• ubi — the UBI device. like, the device. the main character energy of this whole call 👑
• vidb — the VID buffer that we're initializing. this is the glow-up target ✨
• buf — the underlying buffer, the actual raw material underneath it all. the support system, fr fr 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the manpage goes full stan-list, and honestly? iconic. if you wanna go deeper, go read the kernel file ./drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h and then these:

• struct ubi_vid_io_buf(9)
• struct ubi_wl_entry(9)
• struct ubi_ltree_entry(9)
• struct ubi_rename_entry(9)
• struct ubi_fastmap_layout(9)
• struct ubi_fm_pool(9)
• struct ubi_eba_leb_desc(9)
• struct ubi_volume(9)
• struct ubi_volume_desc(9)
• struct ubi_debug_info(9)
• struct ubi_device(9)
• struct ubi_ainf_peb(9)
• struct ubi_ainf_volume(9)
• struct ubi_attach_info(9)
• struct ubi_work(9)
• ubi_free_vid_buf(9)
• ubi_get_vid_hdr(9)
• ubi_ro_mode(9)
• vol_id2idx(9)
• idx2vol_id(9)
• ubi_is_fm_vol(9)
• ubi_find_fm_block(9)

that's the whole friend group, bestie — go say hi 💜

also like, quick reality check: this page is ./drivers/mtd/ubi, dated October 2026, and it's page ubi_init_vid_buf(9). screenshot it, cite it, slay 💅🔥

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and that's the page!! short and sweet, lowkey obsessed with how tidy it is. go initialize that VID buffer, you absolute legend 🌟🎀