adf_dev_start(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this page is straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about adf_dev_start — Start acceleration service for the given accel device. no cap, that's the whole vibe of the name section 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int adf_dev_start (struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• accel_dev — a pointer to the acceleration device. that's it, that's the argument 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this function is the one that notifies all the registered services that the acceleration device is ready to be used. it's giving "announcement in the group chat that the device is up and slaying" ✨

and just so you know, it's meant to be used by QAT device specific drivers. iykyk.

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🫶 RETURN 🫶

• 0 on success 🎉
• an error code otherwise 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c
• adf_dev_init(9)
• adf_dev_stop(9)
• adf_dev_shutdown(9)

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xoxo, sourced from ./drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat..., dated October 2026 — periodt 💖