ata_port_freeze(9)

NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the ata_port_freeze(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 🦋 — we're getting into it.

ata_port_freeze — abort & freeze port

SYNOPSIS ✨

int ata_port_freeze (struct ata_port *ap );

ARGUMENTS 🫶

ap — the ATA port to freeze. that's the whole argument, bestie 💅

DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so ata_port_freeze aborts and freezes ap. the freeze operation must be called first, because some hardware requires special operations before the taskfile registers are accessible. no cap, that order matters 🔥

LOCKING: spin_lock_irqsave(host lock)

RETURN 🌈

it gives you back the number of aborted commands — that's the return value, periodt 💯