cmd640_port_start(9)

cmd640_port_start(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — today's main character is cmd640_port_start, and it's giving tiny port-setup realness 💅

✨ NAME ✨

cmd640_port_start — port setup. literally that's the name, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int cmd640_port_start (struct ata_port *ap );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ap — the ATA port being set up. that's the one we're setting up, bestie 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea: the CMD640 needs to maintain private data structures, so we allocate space here. that's it, that's the function — iconic little setup behavior ✨

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• Kernel file ./drivers/ata/pata_cmd640.c
• cmd640_set_piomode(9), cmd640_qc_issue(9) — go peek, iykyk 👑

xoxo bestie 💖 — this page comes from the ./drivers/ata source/version, dated October 2026. slay and goodbye 🎀