v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu(9)

💖 v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu — the Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🎀 this is the v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and i'm gonna walk you through it like we're on facetime 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu — creates a brand-new standard V4L2 integer menu control. that's the whole vibe. one function, one job, slay 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the signature, copy it exactly, no cap:

struct v4l2_ctrl * v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu (struct v4l2_ctrl_handler *hdl
, const struct v4l2_ctrl_ops *ops , u32 id , u8 max , u8 def , const s64
*qmenu_int );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

okay so this function takes six (6) things and every single one matters, don't skip any 💀

• hdl — the control handler. this is the main character of the whole control situation ✨
• ops — the control ops. the behaviour squad 🎀
• id — the control ID. the name tag, basically. who are we today 🪪
• max — the control's maximum value. the ceiling, literally 🏠
• def — the control's default value. where we start out, no pressure 🍓
• qmenu_int — the control's menu entries. it's an array, loved that for us 🌈

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so real talk: this is the same as v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu, but mask is set to 0, and it additionally takes as an argument an array of integers determining the menu items. so it's giving "standard menu but with ints" and honestly? iconic 💅

⚠️ important one, bestie — if id refers to a non-integer-menu control, then this function will return NULL. no control for you. the void. the emptiness. 😭 that's not a bug, that's the contract, so check your id fr fr.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the friend group 💜 the whole kernel file is ./include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h, and here's literally everyone it's linked with — every single one, i'm not cutting anybody, this is a full roster 👑

• union v4l2_ctrl_ptr(9), v4l2_ctrl_ptr_create(9), struct v4l2_ctrl_ops(9), struct v4l2_ctrl_type_ops(9), v4l2_ctrl_notify_fnc(9), struct v4l2_ctrl(9), struct v4l2_ctrl_ref(9), struct v4l2_ctrl_handler(9), struct v4l2_ctrl_config(9), v4l2_ctrl_fill(9)
• v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class(9), v4l2_ctrl_handler_init(9), v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(9), v4l2_ctrl_lock(9), v4l2_ctrl_unlock(9), __v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup(9), v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup(9), v4l2_ctrl_handler_log_status(9)
• v4l2_ctrl_new_custom(9), v4l2_ctrl_new_std(9), v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu(9), v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu_items(9), v4l2_ctrl_new_std_compound(9), v4l2_ctrl_filter(9), v4l2_ctrl_add_handler(9), v4l2_ctrl_radio_filter(9), v4l2_ctrl_cluster(9), v4l2_ctrl_auto_cluster(9), v4l2_ctrl_find(9), v4l2_ctrl_activate(9)
• __v4l2_ctrl_grab(9), v4l2_ctrl_grab(9), __v4l2_ctrl_modify_range(9), v4l2_ctrl_modify_range(9), __v4l2_ctrl_modify_dimensions(9), v4l2_ctrl_modify_dimensions(9), v4l2_ctrl_notify(9)
• v4l2_ctrl_get_name(9), v4l2_ctrl_get_menu(9), v4l2_ctrl_get_int_menu(9), v4l2_ctrl_g_ctrl(9), __v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl(9), v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl(9), v4l2_ctrl_g_ctrl_int64(9), __v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_int64(9), v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_int64(9)
• __v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_string(9), v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_string(9), __v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_compound(9), v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl_compound(9), v4l2_ctrl_replace(9), v4l2_ctrl_merge(9), v4l2_ctrl_log_status(9)
• v4l2_ctrl_subscribe_event(9), v4l2_ctrl_poll(9), v4l2_ctrl_request_setup(9), v4l2_ctrl_request_complete(9), v4l2_ctrl_request_hdl_find(9), v4l2_ctrl_request_hdl_put(9), v4l2_ctrl_request_hdl_ctrl_find(9)
• v4l2_queryctrl(9), v4l2_query_ext_ctrl_to_v4l2_queryctrl(9), v4l2_query_ext_ctrl(9), v4l2_querymenu(9), v4l2_g_ctrl(9), v4l2_s_ctrl(9), v4l2_g_ext_ctrls(9), v4l2_try_ext_ctrls(9), v4l2_s_ext_ctrls(9)
• v4l2_ctrl_subdev_subscribe_event(9), v4l2_ctrl_subdev_log_status(9), v4l2_ctrl_new_fwnode_properties(9), v4l2_ctrl_type_op_equal(9), v4l2_ctrl_type_op_init(9), v4l2_ctrl_type_op_log(9), v4l2_ctrl_type_op_validate(9)

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that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓 and for the credits moment: this one lives over at ./include/media, dated October 2026 — ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💖✨🎀