ata_eh_analyze_serror(9)

🦋 ata_eh_analyze_serror(9) 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's called ata_eh_analyze_serror(9) and honestly it's giving "quiet little helper that does one thing really well" — main character energy, but make it understated 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ata_eh_analyze_serror — analyze SError for a failed port 🩺

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ata_eh_analyze_serror (struct ata_link *link );

no cap, that's the whole signature. returns nothing (void, periodt), takes one thing, gets to work 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• link — the ATA link you're analyzing SError for, bestie. that's the one. that's the assignment 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the vibe: this function analyzes SError if it's available, and then goes further and determines the cause of the failure 🔍 literally the detective of the error-handling world, iykyk.

LOCKING: None. ✨ (yes, none — no locks held, no locking required, don't come for her)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-eh.c — that's the neighborhood she lives in 🏡

and now the full guest list, because nobody gets left out of the group chat 👑:

• __ata_ehi_push_desc(9)
• ata_ehi_push_desc(9)
• ata_ehi_clear_desc(9)
• ata_port_desc(9)
• ata_port_pbar_desc(9)
• ata_internal_cmd_timeout(9)
• ata_internal_cmd_timed_out(9)
• ata_eh_acquire(9)
• ata_eh_release(9)
• ata_scsi_error(9)
• ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(9)
• ata_scsi_port_error_handler(9)
• ata_port_wait_eh(9)
• ata_eh_set_pending(9)
• ata_qc_schedule_eh(9)
• ata_std_sched_eh(9)
• ata_std_end_eh(9)
• ata_port_schedule_eh(9)
• ata_link_abort(9)
• ata_port_abort(9)
• __ata_port_freeze(9)
• ata_port_freeze(9)
• ata_eh_freeze_port(9)
• ata_eh_thaw_port(9)
• ata_eh_qc_complete(9)
• ata_eh_qc_retry(9)
• ata_dev_disable(9)
• ata_eh_detach_dev(9)
• ata_eh_about_to_do(9)
• ata_eh_done(9)
• ata_err_string(9)
• atapi_eh_tur(9)
• ata_eh_decide_disposition(9)
• ata_eh_request_sense(9)
• atapi_eh_request_sense(9)
• ata_eh_analyze_tf(9)
• ata_eh_speed_down_verdict(9)
• ata_eh_speed_down(9)
• ata_eh_worth_retry(9)
• ata_eh_quiet(9)
• ata_eh_link_set_lpm(9)
• ata_eh_link_autopsy(9)
• ata_eh_autopsy(9)
• ata_get_cmd_name(9)
• ata_eh_link_report(9)
• ata_eh_report(9)
• ata_eh_set_mode(9)
• atapi_eh_clear_ua(9)
• ata_eh_maybe_retry_flush(9)
• ata_eh_recover(9)
• ata_eh_finish(9)
• ata_std_error_handler(9)
• ata_eh_handle_port_suspend(9)
• ata_eh_handle_port_resume(9)

like, the entire libata error-handling friend group showed up 💀 and honestly? obsessed 🍓

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that's the page, bestie 💖 huge shoutout to ./drivers/ata for housing this whole situation, and a very October 2026 to you all 🎀 slay, stay hydrated, and remember: SError analyzed, cause determined, no locks held 🧚💜