create_empty_lvol(9)

create_empty_lvol 💅✨

okay bestie, welcome to this little slice of the Kernel API Manual — the header vibe is create_empty_lvol(9), and we’re about to get into it. No cap, it’s a short one, so let’s go 🫶

NAME 🌸

create_empty_lvol — create empty layout volume. that’s the whole name, periodt. 💖

SYNOPSIS ✨

struct ubi_vtbl_record * create_empty_lvol (struct ubi_device *ubi ,
       struct ubi_attach_info *ai );

ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ubi — UBI device description object. yes bestie, it’s the device description situation 💅
• ai — attaching information. iconic attaching-info energy ✨

DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the way this works: this function returns volume table contents when it succeeds, and a negative error code when it fails. That’s it. That’s the whole plot. 😭

SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c

also pls go look at these, they’re literally in the same friend group:

• ubi_update_layout_vol(9)
• ubi_change_vtbl_record(9)
• ubi_vtbl_rename_volumes(9)
• vtbl_check(9)
• create_vtbl(9)
• process_lvol(9)
• init_volumes(9)
• check_av(9)
• check_attaching_info(9)
• ubi_read_volume_table(9)
• self_vtbl_check(9)

bye bestie 🫶 — this page lives at ./drivers/mtd/ubi, dated October 2026, and it’s filed under create_empty_lvol(9). slay ✨