v4l2_ctrl_get_menu(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 v4l2_ctrl_get_menu — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the v4l2_ctrl_get_menu page 💖 this is a kernel API manual page, and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, and she's about to hand you a whole menu. literally. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

v4l2_ctrl_get_menu — get the menu string array of the control 🍓

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

const char * const * v4l2_ctrl_get_menu (u32 id );

like, yes, that is a pointer to a const pointer to const char. she's got layers. main character energy honestly 👑

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • id — the control ID. that's it. that's the whole argument. you hand her the ID and she does the rest 💫

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does she actually do? okay so — this function returns the NULL-terminated menu string array name of the given control ID 🥰

and if the control ID you passed isn't a known menu control? she's not gonna pretend. she returns NULL. no cap. that's the whole vibe check 💀

ngl, NULL here is not an error tantrum, it's just her way of saying "bestie, that's not a menu control, i don't know her" 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie this list is long — like, group-chat-with-40-unread-messages long 😭 but every single one of these is invited to the party, so:

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🫶 this lil drop came from ./include/media, version-dated October 2026 — and that's the cute sign-off bestie, go read some other v4l2_ctrl pages, ily, bye 💖🌈✨

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