api_cmd_chain_hw_clean(9)

💅 api_cmd_chain_hw_clean(9) — the Kernel API Manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for api_cmd_chain_hw_clean(9) — yes that's the whole name, yes it's a mouthful, no we're not shortening it, it's iconic and we respect it 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

api_cmd_chain_hw_clean — clean the HW 🌸

like. literally just clean the hardware. that's the whole vibe. the HW gets cleaned, periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void api_cmd_chain_hw_clean (struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *chain );

returns void, so don't come looking for a return value, there isn't one, she gives nothing and that's her right 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• chain — the API CMD specific chain 🫶 like, the chain that belongs to API CMD. that one. that's the one you're handing over.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file that lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_api_cmd.c — go read it, she's right there, no cap 🔥

and the whole friend group, all of them, in order, don't skip anyone:

chain_busy(9), get_cell_data_size(9), prepare_cell_ctrl(9), prepare_api_cmd(9), prepare_cell(9), api_cmd_status_update(9), wait_for_status_poll(9), wait_for_api_cmd_completion(9), api_cmd(9), hinic_api_cmd_write(9), api_cmd_hw_restart(9), api_cmd_ctrl_init(9), api_cmd_set_status_addr(9), api_cmd_set_num_cells(9), api_cmd_head_init(9), api_cmd_chain_hw_init(9), free_cmd_buf(9), alloc_cmd_buf(9), api_cmd_create_cell(9), api_cmd_destroy_cell(9), api_cmd_destroy_cells(9), api_cmd_create_cells(9), api_chain_init(9), api_chain_free(9), api_cmd_create_chain(9), api_cmd_destroy_chain(9), hinic_api_cmd_init(9), hinic_api_cmd_free(9)

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that's the whole page bestie, no filler, no extra lore, we keep it factual 🧚

ngl if you made it this far you're lowkey a kernel girlie now. main character energy fr fr ⭐

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🌈 mwah, this came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and it's dated October 2026 — and the page itself is api_cmd_chain_hw_clean(9) in case you forgot already (you didn't, you're obsessed, iykyk) 💜🎀✨