do_flash_update(9)

💅 do_flash_update(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

okay so welcome to the do_flash_update(9) page, folded in right at the top so no boring header line is gonna jump-scare you. It’s giving kernel API manual, but make it cute 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

do_flash_update is the function. Its description is literally Excute flash update (write image or CVPD) — and yes bestie, Excute is right there, typo and all, we are not fixing the lore 💀.

So: flash update. Write an image or CVPD. That’s the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int do_flash_update (struct genwqe_file *cfile , struct genwqe_bitstream
       *load );

That’s the signature, character for character. Slay.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cfile — Descriptor of opened file. Like, the open file’s descriptor, its little backstage pass 🪪.
• load — details about image load. All the image-load deets are in here 🖼️.

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 if successful. That’s the success indicator, periodt ✅.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/misc/genwqe/card_dev.c, and then the whole genwqe friend group — all of these are (9) pages:

• genwqe_search_pin(9)
• __genwqe_search_mapping(9)
• genwqe_kill_fasync(9)
• genwqe_open(9)
• genwqe_fasync(9)
• genwqe_release(9)
• genwqe_vma_close(9)
• genwqe_mmap(9)
• ddcb_cmd_cleanup(9)
• ddcb_cmd_fixups(9)
• genwqe_execute_ddcb(9)
• genwqe_ioctl(9)
• genwqe_device_create(9)
• genwqe_device_remove(9)

okay that’s the whole page, mwah 💋. Source/version is ./drivers/misc/genwqe and the date is October 2026 — this do_flash_update(9) moment is officially stamped, bestie. 🎀