ata_eh_release(9)

💖 ata_eh_release(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's a tiny little release baddie. no cap, she does one job and she does it cute. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ata_eh_release — release EH ownership

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void ata_eh_release (struct ata_port *ap );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ap — the ATA port you're releasing EH ownership for. that's the whole assignment, bestie. 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so ata_eh_release releases EH ownership for ap if the caller — and the caller must have already acquired EH ownership using ata_eh_acquire previously. no sneaky drive-by releases, fr fr. 😭

LOCKING: EH context.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-eh.c, plus this whole bestie group: __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_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_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).

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xoxo, your Unix bestie 💖 — source/version: ./drivers/ata • date: October 2026 • page: ata_eh_release(9) 🎀