libnvme_ctrl_identify(9)

💖 libnvme_ctrl_identify(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the libnvme API manual ✨ this one's a lil function page and honestly? it's giving "small but mighty" 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

libnvme_ctrl_identify — bestie, this one literally Issues an 'identify controller' command 👑 no cap, that's the whole job.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int libnvme_ctrl_identify (struct libnvme_ctrl *c , struct nvme_id_ctrl
*id );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• c — your Controller instance 🫶 like, the controller you're being all up in.
• id — the Identify controller data structure 💅 this is where the tea gets stored.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what it does: it Issues an 'identify controller' command to c and copies the data into id. that's it, that's the vibe 🌈 literally just "ask the controller who it is" and then "write the answer down in id" 📝✨ iconic behaviour, honestly.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉 slay.
• negative error code otherwise 😭 so like, if it's negative, something went sideways, check it.

fr fr: 0 = good vibes only, anything negative = go read the error code, bestie 💀

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🌷 SEE ALSO 🌷

(ngl there's no SEE ALSO section on this one, so nothing to link — that's just how it is, and we respect it 🙈)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💖 this cutie dropped as part of the libnvme API manual, dated October 2026 — go forth and identify those controllers, periodt 💅🌸

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