v4l2_norm_to_name(9)

✨ v4l2_norm_to_name(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's a little cutie from the kernel media crew — it's the page for v4l2_norm_to_name, and it does exactly one (1) thing but it does it iconically 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

v4l2_norm_to_name — an ancillary routine that gets you the analog TV standard name from its ID 🫶 like, you hand it an ID, it hands you a name. matchmaker energy fr fr 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * v4l2_norm_to_name (v4l2_std_id id );

that's it, that's the whole vibe 🌈

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• id — the analog TV standard ID. that's the one you're asking about 👑

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💫 RETURN 💫

it returns a string with the name of the analog TV standard ⭐

but listen — if the standard is not found, or if id points to multiple standard, it returns "Unknown". so like... sometimes she just doesn't know 😭 and she says so, honestly, which is honestly iconic of her 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole squad, no cap — go say hi 👋

• Kernel file ./include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h struct v4l2_ioctl_ops(9)
• v4l2_video_std_frame_period(9)
• v4l2_video_std_construct(9)
• v4l_video_std_enumstd(9)
• v4l_printk_ioctl(9)
• var v4l2_field_names(9)
• var v4l2_type_names(9)
• v4l2_compat_ioctl32(9)
• v4l2_kioctl(9)
• video_usercopy(9)
• video_ioctl2(9)

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and that's the page!! 🎉 this little baddie lives over in ./include/media 💜 and she's stamped October 2026 — so yeah, mark your calendar bestie, she's a fall girly 🍓💅 mwah, go read the other ioctl pages, ily 🫶✨