efivar_init(9)

🎀 efivar_init(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for efivar_init(9) — it's giving “build the initial list of EFI variables” and we’re gonna get through it together 💖

✨ NAME ✨

efivar_init — build the initial list of EFI variables 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int efivar_init (int (*func)(efi_char16_t *, efi_guid_t, unsigned long,
       void *) , void *data , bool duplicate_check );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• func — the callback function to invoke for every variable, no cap ✨
• data — function-specific data that gets passed to func, iykyk 🫶
• duplicate_check — fail if a duplicate variable is found 💀

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Get every EFI variable from the firmware and invoke func. func should populate the initial dentry and inode tree 🌈

Returns 0 on success, or a kernel error code on failure. periodt 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

Kernel file ./fs/efivarfs/vars.c — go look, bestie 👑

• efivar_entry_delete(9)
• efivar_entry_size(9)
• __efivar_entry_get(9)
• efivar_entry_get(9)
• efivar_entry_set_get_size(9)

that’s the whole vibe! this page is from ./fs/efivarfs (source/version), dated October 2026, and yes it’s efivar_init(9) — mwah 💋✨