vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(9)

💅 vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's about vimc_streamer_pipeline_init — say that five times fast, i literally dare you 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vimc_streamer_pipeline_init — initializes the stream structure ✨ (yes that's the whole job, and she does it gorgeously)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int vimc_streamer_pipeline_init (struct vimc_stream *stream , struct
       vimc_ent_device *ved );

like, it returns an int, takes two pointers, and it's giving "i know exactly what i'm doing" 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• stream — the pointer to the stream structure to be initialized. this is the main character fr, she's the thing getting set up 😌
• ved — the pointer to the vimc entity that's initializing the stream. the supportive bestie doing the initializing 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it actually do? bestie, listen —

It initializes the stream structure. that's the headline.

Then it walks through the entity graph to construct the pipeline that gets used later on the streamer thread — think of it like scrolling through everyone's profiles to figure out who's in the group chat 👑 no cap.

And then it calls vimc_streamer_s_stream to enable stream in all entities of the pipeline. the way that it just turns everything on at once?? iconic. periodt. 🔥

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 if success, error code otherwise. so like, zero is the slay outcome, anything else means something went sideways 😭💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
• vimc_get_source_entity(9)
• vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate(9)
• vimc_streamer_get_sensor(9)
• vimc_streamer_thread(9)
• vimc_streamer_s_stream(9)

go read those too, i'm obsessed with all of them fr fr 🧚💜

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this one came from ./drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc, dated October 2026, and it's vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(9) through and through. love that for us 🍓🎀✨