video_get_options(9)

💖 video_get_options(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — this one is all about grabbing kernel boot parameters, and it’s lowkey iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

video_get_options — get kernel boot parameters

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * video_get_options (const char *name );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• name — the name of the output, exactly like it would show up in the boot parameter line: video=<name>:<options> 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this function looks up the video= options for whatever name you pass in. With DRM, those names are connector names; with fbdev, they’re driver names. No cap. 🔥

If no video option has been specified for that name, the function returns the global video= setting. And if name is NULL? It always returns the global video setting. periodt. 💀

🌈 RETURN 🌈

It gives you the string of video options for the given name — or NULL if no video option has been specified. That’s the whole vibe check. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/video/cmdline.c — go read it, iykyk 📚

and that’s the page, bestie 🎀 source/version: ./drivers/video, dated October 2026 — catch you in video_get_options(9) again soon 💖🦋🌸