fc_bsg_host_dispatch(9)

💫 NAME 💫

fc_bsg_host_dispatch — bestie, this is the function that takes your fc host bsg requests and hands them off to the LLDD 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int fc_bsg_host_dispatch (struct Scsi_Host *shost , struct bsg_job *job
);

okay so real talk, it returns an int, and it takes two things. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• shost — the scsi host rport attached to 🫶 like, this is the host it's riding for, yk?
• job — the bsg job to be processed. this is the actual work item getting yeeted through the pipeline ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

no cap, this function does not exist in a vacuum — here's the whole friend group, all from the Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c:

• fc_get_event_number(9)
• fc_host_post_fc_event(9)
• fc_host_post_event(9)
• fc_host_post_vendor_event(9)
• fc_find_rport_by_wwpn(9)
• fc_host_fpin_rcv(9)
• fc_eh_timed_out(9)
• fc_queue_work(9)
• fc_flush_work(9)
• fc_queue_devloss_work(9)
• fc_flush_devloss(9)
• fc_remove_host(9)
• fc_starget_delete(9)
• fc_rport_final_delete(9)
• fc_remote_port_create(9)
• fc_remote_port_add(9)
• fc_remote_port_delete(9)
• fc_remote_port_rolechg(9)
• fc_timeout_deleted_rport(9)
• fc_timeout_fail_rport_io(9)
• fc_scsi_scan_rport(9)
• fc_block_rport(9)
• fc_block_scsi_eh(9)
• fc_vport_setup(9)
• fc_vport_create(9)
• fc_vport_terminate(9)
• fc_vport_sched_delete(9)
• fc_bsg_job_timeout(9)
• fc_bsg_rport_dispatch(9)
• fc_bsg_hostadd(9)
• fc_bsg_rportadd(9)
• fc_bsg_remove(9)

like... thirty-two of them. it's giving "everyone showed up to the function's birthday party" 😭🔥 go read them, iykyk.

💀 seriously though, if you're touching fc_bsg_host_dispatch in ./drivers/scsi, please actually read the ones above. fc_bsg_rport_dispatch(9) especially — it's the sibling, and the way that they mirror each other? obsessed. 🧚

okay bestie that's the page!! 🍓 this was the Kernel API Manual entry for fc_bsg_host_dispatch, and the whole thing lives in ./drivers/scsi — stamped October 2026, version vibes and all. slay, go dispatch some requests, periodt 💜👑🦋