vkms_create(9)

✨ vkms_create(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for vkms_create — it's giving "tiny function, huge destiny" and honestly? iconic 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vkms_create — literally creates a device from a configuration, no cap 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int vkms_create (struct vkms_config *config );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• config — the config you use to configure the new device ✨ like, it's the blueprint, the mood board, the whole personality of the device you're about to bring into existence 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea: a pointer to the created vkms_device gets stored in config. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🌈 your config walks in as a config and leaves holding a brand-new vkms_device pointer. main character energy fr fr 💀

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, or an error 😭 that's the whole deal — zero means slay, anything else means something went sideways ngl.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

like, go read these next, they're all part of the same friend group 💜:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h and struct vkms_frame_info(9)
• struct pixel_argb_u16(9)
• pixel_write_t(9)
• enum pixel_read_direction(9)
• pixel_read_line_t(9)
• struct conversion_matrix(9)
• struct vkms_plane_state(9)
• struct vkms_crtc_state(9)
• struct vkms_output(9)
• struct vkms_device(9)
• vkms_destroy(9)
• vkms_crtc_init(9)
• vkms_output_init(9)
• vkms_plane_init(9)

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🫶 reminder bestie: this page lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm/vkms, dated October 2026 — that's the source, the version, and the date all in one cute little sign-off. now go forth and create some devices 💅✨🌸