xbc_node_get_parent(9)

✨ xbc_node_get_parent ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a tiny little function but it's lowkey iconic — it's literally how you get from a node back up to its parent in an XBC tree 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xbc_node_get_parent — get the parent XBC node 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct xbc_node * xbc_node_get_parent (struct xbc_node *node );

like yes that's the whole vibe ✨ a struct xbc_node * goes in, a struct xbc_node * comes out, no cap 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• node — an XBC node. that's it, that's the whole argument bestie 🙈 it's the node you're asking about, the main character of this function fr fr 👑

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the way this works is: it returns the parent node of node. simple, clean, slay 💅

and if node happens to be the top node of the tree? it returns NULL — because there's nothing above the top, bestie, it's giving "I am the root, I answer to no one" 👑✨

ngl, NULL is a totally valid answer here — if you get it back, that node is the top of the tree, not an error 🌈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file ./lib/bootconfig.c and honestly the whole friend group 🫶:

• xbc_prepend_embedded_cmdline(9)
• xbc_embedded_cmdline_applied(9)
• bootconfig_cmdline_requested(9)
• xbc_get_info(9)
• xbc_root_node(9)
• xbc_node_index(9)
• xbc_node_get_child(9)
• xbc_node_get_next(9)
• xbc_node_get_data(9)
• xbc_node_find_subkey(9)
• xbc_node_find_value(9)
• xbc_node_compose_key_after(9)
• xbc_node_find_next_leaf(9)
• xbc_node_find_next_key_value(9)
• xbc_snprint_cmdline(9)
• _xbc_exit(9)
• xbc_init(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 mwah 💋 — brought to you by ./lib, drop date October 2026, version xbc_node_get_parent(9) ✨ go forth and traverse upward 🌸💖