adf_gen4_dev_config(9)

💅 adf_gen4_dev_config — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you found yourself in section 9 of the Kernel API Manual and the page you're on is literally called adf_gen4_dev_config — welcome, you're gonna love it here 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

adf_gen4_dev_config — bestie, this is the function that creates the dev config required to create instances. that's it, that's the whole vibe. no cap. 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int adf_gen4_dev_config (struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev );

it takes one thing, it gives you back an int. the way that signature is so clean 😭

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• accel_dev — Pointer to acceleration device. fr fr, that's the one and only thing you gotta hand over. she's the main character here 💜

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, the function creates device configuration required to create instances. that's the whole assignment. it sets up the config the rest of the flow needs before instances can happen — it's giving backstage crew energy, doing the work so the show can go on 🌈

no extra lore, no secret side quests. what it says is what it does 💅

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🌟 RETURN 🌟

• 0 on success — slay 🎉
• an error code otherwise — so like, if it's not 0, something didn't go to plan 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file that has all the actual tea:

./drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_gen4_config.c

go read it, iykyk 🍓

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💖 cute lil sign-off 💖

this page came from source ./drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat... and it's dated October 2026, and yes it's filed under adf_gen4_dev_config(9) in case you lost your place. anyway ily, go configure some devices, periodt 🧚⭐