ata_sff_sync(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ata_sff_sync(9) — the group-chat remix

okay so bestie, we're deep in the kernel API manual today — this one's ata_sff_sync, and honestly it's a short lil icon. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME

ata_sff_sync — flush writes 💾✨

like, push the writes out, make sure they actually happened. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS

void ata_sff_sync (struct ata_port *ap );

that's it. one arg. she's lowkey minimal 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS

  • ap — the port you're waiting on. that's the whole vibe check 🫶

⭐ DESCRIPTION

okay so first thing, and I need you to hear me on this one:

CAUTION: if we've got an mmio device with no ctl and no altstatus method, this will fail. 😭

but also — breathe — no such devices are known to exist. so like. it's giving theoretical problem. still, it's in the docs for a reason, bestie, don't come for me 💀

LOCKING: inherited from the caller 🔒 — meaning you don't get to be surprised later, whoever called this already decided the locking situation. not our problem, fr fr.

🌈 SEE ALSO

this section is huge, and honestly? iconic. she knows absolutely everybody 👑

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

and then the whole extended friend group:

yeah. sixty-six of them. she's a social butterfly, we love that for her 🦋✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, one caution, one locking note, and an absolutely unhinged SEE ALSO list 💜

this lil gem lives in ./drivers/ata and the version stamp is October 2026 — written down in the cute sign-off corner of the manual, mwah 💅🎀

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