ata_wait_idle(9)

🌸 ata_wait_idle(9) 🌸

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and the manual name is literally ata_wait_idle(9). It’s giving “wait for the port to chill” energy, and honestly? iconic. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ata_wait_idle — wait for a port to be idle. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u8 ata_wait_idle (struct ata_port *ap );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ap — the port you’re waiting for. that’s the one, bestie. 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Waits up to 10ms for the port’s BUSY and DRQ signals to clear. It returns the final value of the status register — a u8, per the synopsis. 💖

LOCKING: Inherited from caller. no cap, you don’t get fresh locking rules here. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./include/linux/libata.h
• ata_ncq_supported(9)
• ata_ncq_enabled(9)
• ata_sff_busy_wait(9)

cute sign-off time: this one’s from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and the page is ata_wait_idle(9). slay, go wait on that idle port bestie 💅✨