ata_is_link(9)

💅 ata_is_link — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to this little corner of the Kernel API Manual — we're talking ata_is_link(9) today and honestly? she's a small one but she carries. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ata_is_link — check if a struct device represents a ATA link 🦋

like, that's it, that's her whole job. and she does it flawlessly, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ata_is_link (const struct device *dev );

literally just hand her a device and she'll tell you what's up 💅 (yes the spacing in there is exactly how the original rocks it, don't come for me 🙈)

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — the device to check 👀 this is the one you're asking about, bestie, so make sure it's the one you actually mean.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• true if the device represents a ATA link 💖
• false otherwise 🌈

that's the whole vibe check. binary. iconic. periodt. 👑

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

bestie, there's a whole friend group here, all chilling in the kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-transport.c — go say hi 🍓

• ata_is_port(9)
• ata_tport_delete(9)
• ata_port_classify(9)
• ata_is_ata_dev(9)
• ata_tdev_free(9)
• ata_tdev_delete(9)
• ata_tdev_add(9)
• ata_tlink_delete(9)
• ata_tlink_add(9)

like, that's a squad. 💜

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ngl the whole thing lives under ./drivers/ata, so if you're lost, that's your address, bestie 🏠

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okay that's the page!! mwah 💋 this lil drop comes to you straight from ./drivers/ata, dated October 2026, filed under ata_is_link(9) — slay, go check your devices, ily, bye 🎀✨🦋