enable_fast_fail(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ enable_fast_fail(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for enable_fast_fail(9) — yes it's a section 9 kernel function, yes it's iconic, and yes we're gonna get you through it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

enable_fast_fail — start host initialization 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int enable_fast_fail (struct ibmvscsi_host_data *hostdata );

like literally that's the whole signature, no cap ✨

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • hostdata — the ibmvscsi_host_data of the host 🫶 that's the one you're passing in, bestie, the host data struct, of the host. yes it's named hostdata. yes it holds host data.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So the way this works: it returns zero if successful ⭐ that's it, that's the contract — call it, and a 0 back means we slayed. Zero is the good number here, periodt.

ngl the original page is genuinely this short and I refuse to invent lore that isn't there 🙈 every detail that exists is right here on this page.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the part where the manpage goes full main-character and lists, like, the entire friend group 😭 all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c:

like, the whole squad, fr fr 🌈

and that's the page!! 🧚 from the ./drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi corner of the kernel, dated October 2026 — mwah, love u, go read the crq queue functions next 💜🎀

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