api_cmd_status_update(9)

💅 api_cmd_status_update — the kernel API manual, bestie edition

okay so real talk, this one's a tiny little function from the hinic driver ('sup Huawei ethernet) and it's genuinely just... one job. but we're gonna learn it properly because that's the vibe. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

api_cmd_status_update — update the status in the chain struct 🎀

like, that's it. that's the whole personality. it goes in, it updates the status, and it leaves. main character energy but make it minimal. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void api_cmd_status_update (struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *chain );

no cap, that's the exact signature — copy it character for character if you're writing it out, spaces and all. 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• chain — the chain you wanna update, bestie. that's the one. hand it over and it gets its status refreshed. ⭐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

heads up, this list is long — the docs are giving "and also everyone I've ever met" 😭 but every single one is here, in the original order, so don't come for me.

the kernel file itself lives right here, go read it:

./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_api_cmd.c

and the whole friend group:

• chain_busy(9), get_cell_data_size(9), prepare_cell_ctrl(9), prepare_api_cmd(9)
• prepare_cell(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_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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okay that's the whole page, and honestly? it ate. 💖

cute little sign-off before you go: this page comes from the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and it's dated October 2026 — so if you're reading this from the future, hi, ily, hope your chain status is updated. 🧚💜