video_device_node_name(9)

💅 video_device_node_name — Kernel API Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the glow-up of video_device_node_name(9) ✨ this one is short and sweet, so let's not overthink it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

video_device_node_name — returns the video device name 💖 literally what it says on the tin, she's an icon, she's a one-liner, she serves

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

const char * video_device_node_name (struct video_device *vdev );

that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• vdev — pointer to struct video_device 👑 that's your video device struct, bestie, the main character of this whole situation

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Returns the device name string 💫 like, she hands you back the name of the device as a string, that's the entire vibe check and she passes it fr fr

ngl this function is doing one (1) thing and honestly? respect. lowkey obsessed with the confidence 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/media/v4l2-dev.h — and okay bestie, here comes the whole group chat, everyone's invited 🎀:

• enum vfl_devnode_type(9)
• enum vfl_devnode_direction(9)
• enum v4l2_video_device_flags(9)
• struct v4l2_prio_state(9)
• v4l2_prio_init(9)
• v4l2_prio_change(9)
• v4l2_prio_open(9)
• v4l2_prio_close(9)
• v4l2_prio_max(9)
• v4l2_prio_check(9)
• struct v4l2_file_operations(9)
• struct video_device(9)
• media_entity_to_video_device(9)
• to_video_device(9)
• __video_register_device(9)
• video_register_device(9)
• video_register_device_no_warn(9)
• video_unregister_device(9)
• video_device_alloc(9)
• video_device_release(9)
• video_device_release_empty(9)
• v4l2_disable_ioctl(9)
• video_get_drvdata(9)
• video_set_drvdata(9)
• video_devdata(9)
• video_drvdata(9)
• video_is_registered(9)
• v4l2_debugfs_root(9)
• video_device_pipeline_start(9)
• __video_device_pipeline_start(9)
• video_device_pipeline_stop(9)
• __video_device_pipeline_stop(9)
• video_device_pipeline_alloc_start(9)
• video_device_pipeline(9)

like, go read all of those if you want the full lore, iykyk 📚🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil gem lives in ./include/media, dated October 2026, and she's filed under video_device_node_name(9) — go off, queen 👑💜