disk_regist...ccess_ranges(9)

💅 disk_register_independent_access_ranges(9) 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

disk_register_independent_access_ranges — the function that registers a set of independent access ranges with sysfs for a disk. that's it, that's the whole gig. no cap 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int disk_register_independent_access_ranges (struct gendisk *disk );

literally returns an int, takes one pointer, and minds its own business. main character energy fr fr ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• disk — the target disk. the one and only, the icon, the moment 👑 this is the struct gendisk * you're doing the registering for.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what does it actually do? it registers with sysfs a set of independent access ranges for disk. that's the whole description, and honestly? obsessed with the brevity. slapped a whole feature into sysfs and didn't even need a paragraph to explain it 💅✨

ngl this page is short because the function is short — don't go looking for lore that isn't there 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./block/blk-ia-ranges.c — go read the source, bestie, it's all right there 📖
• disk_alloc_independent_access_ranges(9) — the allocation one 🍓
• disk_set_independent_access_ranges(9) — the setting one 🌈

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