vc_font_pitch(9)

💖 NAME 💖

vc_font_pitch — calculates the number of bytes between two adjacent scanlines.

Hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for vc_font_pitch(9). This is the function that does the scanline-byte math, and it is literally right there in the name. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned int vc_font_pitch (const struct vc_font *font );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• font — the VC font. That's the whole argument, bestie, no extra lore. 💅

🌸 RETURN 🌸

The number of bytes between two adjacent scanlines in the font data. That's the return value, periodt. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c — plus the whole friend group:

• vc_font_size(9)
• vc_do_resize(9)
• __vc_resize(9)
• vt_resize(9)
• enum vc_ctl_state(9)
• vc_sanitize_unicode(9)
• vc_translate_unicode(9)
• vt_kmsg_redirect(9)
• con_is_bound(9)
• con_is_visible(9)
• con_debug_enter(9)
• con_debug_leave(9)
• do_unregister_con_driver(9)

okay bye bestie 🫶 this page came from the ./drivers/tty/vt source corner, October 2026 edition — vc_font_pitch(9) out. 💖✨