ata_eh_link_report(9)

🌸 ata_eh_link_report — a Kernel API Manual moment 🌸

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this page is literally about ata_eh_link_report. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "quietly doing the most important thing in the room" energy. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ata_eh_link_report — report error handling to user

like, the whole job is: tell the user what the error handling is up to. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ata_eh_link_report (struct ata_link *link );

no return value, no drama — it returns void and just does the thing. iconic. ✨

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• link — the ATA link that EH is going on. that's the one, bestie, it's the link where the error handling situation is happening 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Report EH to user.

fr fr, that's the entire description, and honestly? it ate. it says what it does and it leaves. no rambling, no filler, no "as previously mentioned" — just pure main character efficiency 💖

LOCKING: None.

okay so important note, bestie: LOCKING: None. — meaning this one isn't doing any locking. don't go assuming locks, because the page literally says none. no cap. 🔥

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

so like, the whole libata EH friend group is here. every single one of them. no one got left out of the group chat 🫶

kernel file: ./drivers/ata/libata-eh.c

• __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_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_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)

iykyk, that's a lot of friends and they're all lowkey obsessed with error handling. go read them, bestie, they're all right there 🌈

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and that's the whole page!! short king of a manpage, honestly 👑

sign-off time: this one lives in ./drivers/ata, dated October 2026, and it's page ata_eh_link_report(9) of the Kernel API Manual. mwah, go report some EH 💜🎀