video_get_drvdata(9)

💖 video_get_drvdata — the Kernel API Manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, this is video_get_drvdata(9) from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a tiny little icon and we love her for it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

video_get_drvdata — literally just gets the private data from &struct video_device. that's it. that's the whole vibe check 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * video_get_drvdata (struct video_device *vdev );

look at her. one function, one pointer, no drama. periodt 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• vdev — pointer to struct video_device. that's the whole thing, bestie. it's a pointer. to a struct video_device. no cap 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so basically it returns a pointer to the private data 🧚 that's the entire description, and honestly? not me being obsessed with how unbothered this function is. it goes in, it comes back out with a pointer to the private data, and it does not elaborate. main character energy fr fr 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where the page absolutely ate 💀 — the Kernel file is ./include/media/v4l2-dev.h and here's the full squad, every single one of them, not skipping anybody:

• 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_set_drvdata(9)
• video_devdata(9)
• video_drvdata(9)
• video_device_node_name(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)

no honestly that's a whole friend group and every one of them is invited to the function 💅💖

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ngl there's no warnings, no exit statuses, no bugs section on this one — she's a clean girlie, a low-stakes queen, and we respect it 🙈

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and that's the whole page bestie, hope you understood it, iykyk 🍓

kisses, from ./include/media, dated October 2026, and we are still video_get_drvdata(9) around here 👑⭐💖