ata_eh_freeze_port(9)

✨ ata_eh_freeze_port ✨

okay so bestie, gather round, because this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (that's the 9 section of the manpages, iykyk) and honestly? it's short and it's iconic for it 💅

We're talking about ata_eh_freeze_port — a little EH helper whose whole entire job is to freeze a port. That's it. That's the function. Main character energy but with a very small script 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ata_eh_freeze_port (struct ata_port *ap );

no cap, that's the whole signature — returns void, so it gives you literally nothing back, and it just wants one thing: your port 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• ap — the ATA port to freeze. That's the one. The only one. Your baby. Send it to the freezer 🧊

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Freeze ap.

yep. that's the description. the entire description. one sentence. honestly? slay. sometimes the docs just know what they are and refuse to elaborate ✨

LOCKING: None. — important note bestie! this function does not require any locking. no locks held, no locks needed. keep it that way 🔥

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay this is where it pops off, because the see-also list is genuinely enormous and we are NOT skipping a single one of these. the Kernel file is ./drivers/ata/libata-eh.c and here is the whole squad, in order, exactly as listed:

• __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_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_serror(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)

go read them all, i'll wait 💜 (and yes, ata_eh_thaw_port(9) is right there in the list — the opposite twin, the unfreezer, the warmer-upper 🔥🧊 — go say hi 🦋)

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heads up bestie: SEE ALSO also tells you where the code lives — the kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-eh.c — so if you ever wanna read the source, that's your address, no cap 🙈

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🎀 the cute sign-off 🎀

this whole page lives under ./drivers/ata, it's dated October 2026, and it's the ata_eh_freeze_port(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. that's a wrap, bestie — go freeze that port, respectfully 💅✨🫶