v4l2_subdev_link_validate(9)

🌸 v4l2_subdev_link_validate(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for v4l2_subdev_link_validate — yes, the name is a whole mouthful, but she knows exactly what she's doing. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

v4l2_subdev_link_validate — validates a media link

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int v4l2_subdev_link_validate (struct media_link *link );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• link — pointer to struct media_link. that's the link getting its vibe check, bestie.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: this function calls the subdev's link_validate ops to validate if a media link is valid for streaming. It also internally calls v4l2_subdev_link_validate_default to ensure that width, height and the media bus pixel code are equal on both source and sink of the link. literally making sure both ends are matching, no awkward mismatches. ✨

The function can be used as a drop-in media_entity_ops.link_validate implementation for v4l2_subdev instances. It supports all links between subdevs, as well as links between subdevs and video devices, provided that the video devices also implement their media_entity_ops.link_validate operation. so yeah, she's flexible like that — but only if the video devices do their part too. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this is a long guest list, but every single name matters:

• Kernel file ./include/media/v4l2-subdev.h struct
• v4l2_decode_vbi_line(9)
• enum v4l2_subdev_io_pin_bits(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_io_pin_config(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_core_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_tuner_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_audio_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_mbus_frame_desc_entry_csi2(9)
• enum v4l2_mbus_frame_desc_flags(9)
• struct v4l2_mbus_frame_desc_entry(9)
• enum v4l2_mbus_frame_desc_type(9)
• struct v4l2_mbus_frame_desc(9)
• enum v4l2_subdev_pre_streamon_flags(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_video_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_vbi_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_sensor_ops(9)
• enum v4l2_subdev_ir_mode(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_ir_parameters(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_ir_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_pad_config(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_stream_configs(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_krouting(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_state(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_pad_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_internal_ops(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_platform_data(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev(9)
• media_entity_to_v4l2_subdev(9)
• vdev_to_v4l2_subdev(9)
• struct v4l2_subdev_fh(9)
• to_v4l2_subdev_fh(9)
• v4l2_set_subdevdata(9)
• v4l2_get_subdevdata(9)
• v4l2_set_subdev_hostdata(9)
• v4l2_get_subdev_hostdata(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_fwnode_pad_1_to_1(9)
• v4l2_subdev_link_validate_default(9)
• v4l2_subdev_has_pad_interdep(9)
• __v4l2_subdev_state_alloc(9)
• __v4l2_subdev_state_free(9)
• v4l2_subdev_init_finalize(9)
• v4l2_subdev_cleanup(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_get_format(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_get_crop(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_get_compose(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_get_interval(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_fmt(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_frame_interval(9)
• v4l2_subdev_set_routing(9)
• for_each_active_route(9)
• v4l2_subdev_set_routing_with_fmt(9)
• v4l2_subdev_routing_find_opposite_end(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_get_opposite_stream_format(9)
• v4l2_subdev_state_xlate_streams(9)
• enum v4l2_subdev_routing_restriction(9)
• v4l2_subdev_routing_validate(9)
• v4l2_subdev_enable_streams(9)
• v4l2_subdev_disable_streams(9)
• v4l2_subdev_s_stream_helper(9)
• __v4l2_subdev_get_frame_desc_passthrough(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_frame_desc_passthrough(9)
• v4l2_subdev_lock_state(9)
• v4l2_subdev_unlock_state(9)
• v4l2_subdev_lock_states(9)
• v4l2_subdev_unlock_states(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_unlocked_active_state(9)
• v4l2_subdev_get_locked_active_state(9)
• v4l2_subdev_lock_and_get_active_state(9)
• v4l2_subdev_init(9)
• v4l2_subdev_call(9)
• v4l2_subdev_call_state_active(9)
• v4l2_subdev_call_state_try(9)
• v4l2_subdev_has_op(9)
• v4l2_subdev_notify_event(9)
• v4l2_subdev_is_streaming(9)

that's the whole page, bestie — sourced from ./include/media, dated October 2026, and it's literally the v4l2_subdev_link_validate(9) entry. 💖✨