vio_match_device(9)

💖 vio_match_device(9) — the VIO device matchmaker 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the vio_match_device(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ it’s giving kernel API but make it cute. no cap, every fact is still here.

✨ NAME ✨

vio_match_device — tell if a VIO device has a matching VIO device id structure. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct vio_device_id * vio_match_device (const struct vio_device_id *ids , const struct vio_dev *dev );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• ids — array of VIO device id structures to search in 🔍
• dev — the VIO device structure to match against 🎯

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here’s the vibe: it’s used by a driver to check whether a VIO device present in the system is in its list of supported devices. Returns the matching vio_device_id structure, or NULL if there is no match. 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
• vio_cmo_alloc(9)
• vio_cmo_dealloc(9)
• vio_cmo_entitlement_update(9)
• vio_cmo_balance(9)
• vio_cmo_set_dev_desired(9)
• vio_cmo_bus_probe(9)
• vio_cmo_bus_remove(9)
• vio_cmo_bus_init(9)
• vio_h_cop_sync(9)
• vio_unregister_driver(9)
• vio_register_device_node(9)
• vio_bus_init(9)
• vio_get_attribute(9)
• vio_find_node(9)

okay that’s the tea ☕ this page lives in ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries, dated October 2026, and it’s the vio_match_device(9) manual — mwah 💋🫶