api_cmd_create_cells(9)

💅 api_cmd_create_cells — the glow-up era of API CMD cells

okay so this one's from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel-space bestie ✨) and it's literally the function that builds out your API CMD cells for one specific chain. so slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

api_cmd_create_cells — creates the API CMD cells for a specific chain 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int api_cmd_create_cells (struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *chain );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• chain — the API CMD specific chain 💖 like, your chain, the one you're building cells for, no cap

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Returns 0 for Success, negative for Failure. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🫶

no cap: negative means something went wrong, so pls actually check it bestie 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_api_cmd.c — go read it, iykyk 🔥

and the whole friend group:

• 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_clean(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_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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mwah 💋 that's the page! this lil icon was served up by ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/..., October 2026 edition — and yes, the manual name is api_cmd_create_cells(9) in case you forgot already 🙈 periodt. 💜