xvip_pipeline_prepare(9)

💖 xvip_pipeline_prepare(9) 💖

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for xvip_pipeline_prepare(9), and it's literally giving "get the pipeline ready for streaming" energy. bestie, let's go 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

xvip_pipeline_prepare — Prepare the pipeline for streaming. no cap, that's the name 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int xvip_pipeline_prepare (struct xvip_pipeline *pipe , struct xvip_dma
*dma );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• pipe — the pipeline. that's the whole arg 🫶
• dma — DMA engine at one end of the pipeline. one end, specifically ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, fr fr: it validates the pipeline if no user exists yet. otherwise, it just increases the use count. that's the whole description, and it ate 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 if successful 😌
• -EPIPE if the pipeline is not valid 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/platform/xilinx/xilinx-dma.c
• xvip_pipeline_start_stop(9)
• xvip_pipeline_set_stream(9)
• xvip_pipeline_cleanup(9)
• struct xvip_dma_buffer(9)

💖 okay bye bestie! source/version: ./drivers/media/platform/xilinx · date: October 2026 · manual: xvip_pipeline_prepare(9) — go prep that pipeline! 💖