fc_fc4_register_provider(9)

💅 fc_fc4_register_provider(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is all about registering an FC-4 upper-level provider, and it’s lowkey short but highkey important 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

fc_fc4_register_provider — register FC-4 upper-level provider 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int fc_fc4_register_provider (enum fc_fh_type type , struct fc4_prov
*prov );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• type — the FC-4 type, like FC_TYPE_FCP 👑
• prov — the structure describing the provider, including the ops vector 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 on success, and a negative error otherwise 😭 that’s literally the whole vibe check: success gets 0, anything else is negative error energy 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

also peek at the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_libfc.c and these iconic references 👇

• libfc_init(9)
• libfc_exit(9)
• fc_copy_buffer_to_sglist(9)
• fc_fill_hdr(9)
• fc_fill_reply_hdr(9)
• fc_fc4_conf_lport_params(9)
• fc_fc4_deregister_provider(9)
• fc_fc4_add_lport(9)
• fc_fc4_del_lport(9)

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mwah 💋 source/version: ./drivers/scsi/libfc, date: October 2026 — periodt, that’s the page 🌈⭐