_add_link(9)

💅 _add_link(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for _add_link(9) — this one is a tiny little setup function with main-character energy, and we're gonna get into it 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

_add_link — add an interconnect between two IP blocks

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int _add_link (struct omap_hwmod_ocp_if *oi );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• oi — pointer to a struct omap_hwmod_ocp_if record

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this function is literally doing the link-up: it adds struct omap_hwmod_link records connecting the slave IP block specified in oi->slave to oi. Slay 💅

⚠️ Bestie, important vibe check: this code is assumed to run before preemption or SMP has been enabled, thus avoiding the need for locking in this code. Changes to this assumption will require additional locking. No cap, that's the rule 🫶

And yep — it returns 0. Periodt. ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c, plus this whole friend group:

• struct clkctrl_provider(9)
• struct omap_hwmod_reset(9)
• struct omap_hwmod_soc_ops(9)
• _update_sysc_cache(9)
• _write_sysconfig(9)
• _set_master_standbymode(9)
• _set_slave_idlemode(9)
• _set_clockactivity(9)
• _set_softreset(9)
• _clear_softreset(9)
• _wait_softreset_complete(9)
• _set_dmadisable(9)
• _set_module_autoidle(9)
• _enable_wakeup(9)
• _add_initiator_dep(9)
• _del_initiator_dep(9)
• _init_main_clk(9)
• _init_interface_clks(9)
• _init_opt_clks(9)
• _enable_clocks(9)
• _omap4_clkctrl_managed_by_clkfwk(9)
• _omap4_has_clkctrl_clock(9)
• _disable_clocks(9)
• _omap4_enable_module(9)
• _omap4_wait_target_disable(9)
• _save_mpu_port_index(9)
• _find_mpu_rt_port(9)
• _enable_sysc(9)
• _idle_sysc(9)
• _shutdown_sysc(9)
• _lookup(9)
• _init_clkdm(9)
• _init_clocks(9)
• _lookup_hardreset(9)
• _assert_hardreset(9)
• _deassert_hardreset(9)
• _read_hardreset(9)
• _are_all_hardreset_lines_asserted(9)
• _are_any_hardreset_lines_asserted(9)
• _omap4_disable_module(9)
• _ocp_softreset(9)
• _reset(9)
• _omap4_update_context_lost(9)
• _omap4_get_context_lost(9)
• _enable(9)
• _idle(9)
• _shutdown(9)
• of_dev_hwmod_lookup(9)
• omap_hwmod_fix_mpu_rt_idx(9)
• omap_hwmod_parse_module_range(9)
• _init_mpu_rt_base(9)
• _init(9)
• _setup_iclk_autoidle(9)
• _setup_reset(9)
• _setup_postsetup(9)
• _setup(9)
• _register(9)
• _register_link(9)
• _omap2xxx_3xxx_wait_target_ready(9)
• _omap4_wait_target_ready(9)
• _omap2_assert_hardreset(9)
• _omap2_deassert_hardreset(9)
• _omap2_is_hardreset_asserted(9)
• _omap4_assert_hardreset(9)
• _omap4_deassert_hardreset(9)
• _omap4_is_hardreset_asserted(9)
• _omap4_disable_direct_prcm(9)
• _am33xx_deassert_hardreset(9)
• omap_hwmod_softreset(9)
• omap_hwmod_lookup(9)
• omap_hwmod_for_each(9)
• omap_hwmod_register_links(9)
• _ensure_mpu_hwmod_is_setup(9)
• omap_hwmod_setup_one(9)
• omap_hwmod_check_sysc(9)
• omap_hwmod_init_regbits(9)
• omap_hwmod_init_reg_offs(9)
• omap_hwmod_init_sysc_flags(9)
• omap_hwmod_init_idlemodes(9)
• omap_hwmod_check_module(9)
• omap_hwmod_allocate_module(9)
• omap_hwmod_init_module(9)
• omap_hwmod_setup_earlycon_flags(9)
• omap_hwmod_setup_all(9)
• omap_hwmod_enable(9)
• omap_hwmod_idle(9)
• omap_hwmod_shutdown(9)
• omap_hwmod_get_mpu_rt_va(9)
• omap_hwmod_assert_hardreset(9)
• omap_hwmod_deassert_hardreset(9)
• omap_hwmod_for_each_by_class(9)
• omap_hwmod_set_postsetup_state(9)
• omap_hwmod_init(9)

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version stamp: ./arch/arm/mach-omap2 · date: October 2026 · page: _add_link(9) 🎀