NVME_MI_ADMIN_IDENTIFY_CTRL(2)

💖 nvme_mi_admin_identify_ctrl(2) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the libnvme API manual, section 2 🫶 this one's short and sweet and honestly kinda iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme_mi_admin_identify_ctrl — Perform an Admin identify for a controller 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int nvme_mi_admin_identify_ctrl (nvme_mi_ctrl_t ctrl , struct
nvme_id_ctrl *id );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ctrl — the Controller you wanna process the identify command on 👑
• id — the Controller identify data you're populating, like you're filling up a lil container with facts 🌸

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So literally what happens is: you perform an Identify command, for the controller you specified with ctrl, and it writes the identify data into id. That's it. That's the whole vibe. ✨

lowkey important: it will return an error if the length of the response data (the stuff coming back from the controller) is not a full NVME_IDENTIFY_DATA_SIZE. so on success, id is gonna be fully populated, no crumbs left behind 💖

See: struct nvme_id_ctrl 👀

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💜 RETURN 💜

It gives you the nvme command status if a response was received (peep enum nvme_status_field for the deets), or -1 with errno set otherwise. fr fr, that's the deal 🙈

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July 2026 — that's the date bestie, and this whole thing lives in the libnvme API manual, nvme_mi_admin_identify_ctrl(2). go off, you got this 💅✨🦋