ata_tlink_add(9)

👑 ata_tlink_add(9) 👑

okay so bestie, we’re in the Kernel API Manual and this page is all about ata_tlink_add — it’s giving “set up the ATA link transport device” energy, and you’re gonna slay it 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ata_tlink_add — initialize an ATA link transport device 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ata_tlink_add (struct ata_link *link );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• link — the struct ata_link that owns the link transport device you wanna initialize, fr fr 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this initializes an ATA link transport device for sysfs. It gets added into the device tree below the ATA port it belongs to — very “know your place but make it iconic” of it 🌈

It returns 0 on success and a negative error code on error. No cap, that’s the whole vibe check 😭💖

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file: ./drivers/ata/libata-transport.c 👑

• 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_is_link(9)
• ata_tlink_delete(9)

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signed off from the ./drivers/ata source corner, dated October 2026, for ata_tlink_add(9) — periodt, bestie 🫶💖🎀