check_attaching_info(9)

✨ NAME ✨

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check_attaching_info - check that attaching information. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int check_attaching_info (const struct ubi_device *ubi , struct
       ubi_attach_info *ai );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ubi — UBI device description object ✨
• ai — attaching information 🎀

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Even though we protect on-flash data by CRC checksums, we still don't trust the media. No cap, the media has to prove itself 😭

This function ensures that attaching information is consistent to the information read from the volume table. It returns zero if the attaching information is OK and -EINVAL if it is not. Periodt. 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole related-crew lineup, no skips 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
• ubi_update_layout_vol(9)
• ubi_change_vtbl_record(9)
• ubi_vtbl_rename_volumes(9)
• vtbl_check(9)
• create_vtbl(9)
• process_lvol(9)
• create_empty_lvol(9)
• init_volumes(9)
• check_av(9)
• ubi_read_volume_table(9)
• self_vtbl_check(9)

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byeee 💖 this page’s source/version is ./drivers/mtd/ubi, and the date is October 2026 — mwah! 🎀