ata_err_string(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the page for ata_err_string(9) — the kernel helper that turns an error mask into a descriptive string. It's giving translator-for-bitmasks and honestly? iconic. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * ata_err_string (unsigned int err_mask );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• err_mask — the error mask to convert to string. That's the whole assignment, bestie.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Convert err_mask to a descriptive string. Errors are prioritized according to severity and only the most severe error is reported. So if your mask is a whole group chat of problems, the most severe one gets the main-character edit and the rest don't make the cut. 😭

LOCKING: None. No locks, no drama, no waiting. 🧚

🔥 RETURN 🔥

Descriptive string for err_mask. Yep, it hands you the string and minds its business. 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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), 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).

That's the whole bestie network. Go bother them if you need more. 🦋

Source spot: ./drivers/ata · date: October 2026 — mwah, page closed with a bow. 🎀💋