cdns_prepare...fer_hardware(9)

✨ NAME ✨

This is cdns_prepare...fer_hardware(9), bestie — straight from the Kernel API Manual — and it’s giving “tiny function, big main-character energy” 💅

cdns_prepare_transfer_hardware — prepares hardware for transfer. 🎀

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📡 SYNOPSIS 📡

int cdns_prepare_transfer_hardware (struct spi_controller *ctlr );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ctlr — pointer to the spi_controller structure which provides information about the controller. That’s it, that’s the whole guest list 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so this function enables SPI host controller. No drama, no side quest — it just enables the SPI host controller, periodt. ✨

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🎀 RETURN 🎀

0 always. Literally always, bestie — that’s the return value and it’s iconic. 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/spi/spi-cadence.c — then all the little friends in the Cadence SPI cinematic universe:

• struct cdns_spi(9)
• cdns_spi_init_hw(9)
• cdns_spi_chipselect(9)
• cdns_spi_config_clock_mode(9)
• cdns_spi_config_clock_freq(9)
• cdns_spi_setup_transfer(9)
• cdns_spi_process_fifo(9)
• cdns_spi_irq(9)
• cdns_transfer_one(9)
• cdns_unprepare_transfer_hardware(9)
• cdns_spi_detect_fifo_depth(9)
• cdns_target_abort(9)
• cdns_spi_probe(9)
• cdns_spi_remove(9)
• cdns_spi_suspend(9)
• cdns_spi_resume(9)
• cdns_spi_runtime_resume(9)
• cdns_spi_runtime_suspend(9)

mwah 💋 — from ./drivers/spi, October 2026.