xvip_get_format_by_code(9)

xvip_get_format_by_code(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for xvip_get_format_by_code — the function that retrieves format information for a media bus code. It's giving “I know your format” energy, and honestly? Iconic. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

xvip_get_format_by_code — retrieve format information for a media bus code. That's it, that's the vibe: you hand over a media bus code, and this function is the one that knows the format info. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct xvip_video_format * xvip_get_format_by_code (unsigned int
       code );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• code — the format media bus code. The actual code you're looking up, no cap. 💅

🦋 RETURN 🦋

You get a pointer to the format information structure corresponding to the given V4L2 media bus format code, or ERR_PTR if no corresponding format can be found. So yeah: matching format? pointer. No matching format? ERR_PTR. 😭 That's the whole return story, and it ate. 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go look at the kernel file and these icon functions, okay? They're all in the same little Unix friend group:

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/platform/xilinx/xilinx-vip.c
• xvip_get_format_by_fourcc(9)
• xvip_of_get_format(9)
• xvip_set_format_size(9)
• xvip_clr_or_set(9)
• xvip_clr_and_set(9)
• xvip_enum_mbus_code(9)
• xvip_enum_frame_size(9)

mwah 💋 this cutie comes from the ./drivers/media/platform/xilinx source/version, dated October 2026, and it's the xvip_get_format_by_code(9) manual page. 🫶