VIORTC_MSG_INIT(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 VIORTC_MSG_INIT — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 and today's main character is VIORTC_MSG_INIT(9), which is literally the glow-up ritual for your message handle. it's giving "get ready with me" but for kernel objects 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

VIORTC_MSG_INIT — initialize your message handle, periodt ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

VIORTC_MSG_INIT (hdl , viortc );

that's it. that's the whole invocation. copy it exactly, don't get creative, the compiler is not your friend 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hdl — the message handle. this is the thing you're initializing, bestie. it's the whole point. the moment. the main character 👑
  • viortc — the device data, of type struct viortc_dev *. yes it's a pointer. yes you need it. no you cannot skip it, i'm so serious 🙈

⭐ CONTEXT ⭐

Process context. lowkey the most chill context there is — no atomic panic, no interrupt chaos, just a normal process doing normal process things 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • 0 on success — we love a win 🎉
  • -ENOMEM otherwise — that's a memory issue, ngl. happens to the best of us 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole extended universe, fr fr — go read the source and then read it again 👑

iykyk — that's a lot of cross-references, and every single one of them is exactly where it belongs. don't @ me, just read them 💀

💖 that's the page, bestie 💖 this little love letter lives in ./drivers/virtio and was written down in October 2026 — go forth and initialize responsibly 🌈🦋🌸

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