_scsi_send_scsi_io(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 NAME 💅

_scsi_send_scsi_io — bestie, this one sends an internal SCSI_IO to the target 🎯 (yes, that's literally the whole job, and yes, it slays at it)

It lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, iykyk 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int _scsi_send_scsi_io (struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc , struct
_scsi_io_transfer *transfer_packet , u8 tr_timeout , u8 tr_method );

okay so it returns an int, takes four things, and honestly that signature is giving "I know exactly what I'm doing" 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • ioc — the per adapter object 🫶 like, the whole adapTER, not a little piece of it
  • transfer_packet — the packet describing the transfer ✨ it's the lil envelope that says what's going down
  • tr_timeout — Target Reset Timeout ⏰ (a u8, so keep it smol)
  • tr_method — Target Reset Method 🌸 (also a u8, be normal about it)

🦋 CONTEXT 🦋

user — yep, that's the context, no cap. Not interrupt, not atomic, not whatever else — user 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 for success, non-zero for failure. That's it, that's the whole vibe check 😭 no hidden lore, no secret side quests — just look at the return value and you'll know 🔥

⚠️ okay but fr fr, "non-zero" is not a specific number. Don't be out here if (ret == 1)-ing like it's guaranteed — treat anything non-zero as the failure bucket 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c — and now, girl, brace yourself, because this list is LONG. Not me about to list every single one 🫠 but I promised, so here we go, all of them, in order, no skips:

okay that was a lot but we made it, every single one accounted for, nothing skipped, we ate that list UP 🔥👑

and that's the page bestie! it's all from ./drivers/scsi/mpt3sas — October 2026 edition, the manpage that says _scsi_send_scsi_io(9) up top and down at the bottom, mwah 💋 stay hydrated, read your return codes, and go send some internal SCSI_IO to a target 🎯💖

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