virtsnd_pcm_event(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so virtsnd_pcm_event(9) is the function you call when you need to handle the PCM device event notification — and yes, that is the whole job, bestie. This page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving very specific, very kernel-core energy 💅.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void virtsnd_pcm_event (struct virtio_snd *snd , struct virtio_snd_event *event );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• snd — the VirtIO sound device, aka the main character of this little event-handling moment 👑
• event — the VirtIO sound event that showed up to the party 🎀

🎀 CONTEXT 🎀

Interrupt context. That's the setting, fr fr 🫶 — no extra lore, no side quests, just that context note.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The kernel file is ./sound/virtio/virtio_pcm.c, and these are the besties it wants you to check out:

• virtsnd_pcm_build_hw(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_find(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_find_or_create(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_validate(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_period_elapsed(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_parse_cfg(9)
• virtsnd_pcm_build_devs(9)

mwah 💋 — cute little sign-off: source/version is ./sound/virtio, the date stamp is October 2026, and the page is filed under virtsnd_pcm_event(9) 🦋✨