libnvme_ns_identify_descs(9)

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💅 libnvme_ns_identify_descs(9) 💅

okay bestie so this page lives in the libnvme API manual and it's literally all about one lil function that goes and grabs the identify descriptors for a namespace. it's giving "small but mighty" energy ngl 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

libnvme_ns_identify_descs — issues an 'identify descriptors' command. that's it, that's the whole gig 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int libnvme_ns_identify_descs (struct libnvme_ns *n , struct
nvme_ns_id_desc *descs );

like, yes, the line break in the middle is a whole vibe but it's exactly how it's written, don't come for me 😭

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • n — the namespace instance. your main character struct, the namespace you're doing all this for 👑
  • descs — the list of identify descriptors. this is where the good stuff lands 💖

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what it actually does: it writes the data returned by the 'identify descriptors' command straight into descs. that's the whole flow, no cap. you hand it a namespace and a descriptor list, and it fills that list up with the identify descriptors it got back 🔥

🌈 RETURN 🌈

  • 0 on success — slay 💅
  • a negative error code otherwise — not slay, check your error handling bestie 💀
fr fr, if you get a negative number back that's your cue to actually look at it instead of pretending you didn't see it 🙈

and that's the page!! thanks for reading, this was libnvme_ns_identify_descs(9) from the libnvme API manual, dated October 2026 — mwah, go forth and identify those descriptors ✨🎀💜

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