fc_lport_enter_dns(9)

💅 fc_lport_enter_dns — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (that's the manual name, iykyk) and honestly? it's short and sweet. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fc_lport_enter_dns — literally just: create a fc_rport for the name server. that's the whole vibe. 💫

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void fc_lport_enter_dns (struct fc_lport *lport );

void return, one argument, we're in and out. slay. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• lport — the local port that's out here requesting a remote port for the name server 👑 (yes, it's a struct fc_lport *, and yes, it's the main character of this function)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie there are SO many friends here, she's got a whole group chat 😭 let's list every single one, no skipping, periodt:

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_lport.c 📁 (that's where the magic lives)
• struct fc_bsg_info(9)
• fc_frame_drop(9)
• fc_lport_rport_callback(9)
• fc_lport_state(9)
• fc_lport_ptp_setup(9)
• fc_get_host_port_state(9)
• fc_get_host_speed(9)
• fc_get_host_stats(9)
• fc_lport_flogi_fill(9)
• fc_lport_add_fc4_type(9)
• fc_lport_recv_rlir_req(9)
• fc_lport_recv_echo_req(9)
• fc_lport_recv_rnid_req(9)
• fc_lport_recv_logo_req(9)
• fc_fabric_login(9)
• __fc_linkup(9)
• fc_linkup(9)
• __fc_linkdown(9)
• fc_linkdown(9)
• fc_fabric_logoff(9)
• fc_lport_destroy(9)
• fc_set_mfs(9)
• fc_lport_disc_callback(9)
• fc_lport_enter_ready(9)
• fc_lport_set_port_id(9)
• fc_lport_set_local_id(9)
• fc_lport_recv_flogi_req(9)
• fc_lport_recv_els_req(9)
• fc_lport_recv(9)
• fc_lport_reset(9)
• fc_lport_reset_locked(9)
• fc_lport_enter_reset(9)
• fc_lport_enter_disabled(9)
• fc_lport_error(9)
• fc_lport_ns_resp(9)
• fc_lport_ms_resp(9)
• fc_lport_scr_resp(9)
• fc_lport_enter_scr(9)
• fc_lport_enter_ns(9)
• fc_lport_enter_ms(9)
• fc_lport_enter_fdmi(9)
• fc_lport_timeout(9)
• fc_lport_logo_resp(9)
• fc_lport_enter_logo(9)
• fc_lport_flogi_resp(9)
• fc_lport_enter_flogi(9)
• fc_lport_config(9)
• fc_lport_init(9)
• fc_lport_bsg_resp(9)
• fc_lport_els_request(9)
• fc_lport_ct_request(9)
• fc_lport_bsg_request(9)

like, that's an entire party in the SEE ALSO section and we love that for her 🫶💖

ngl the whole related-functions list is longer than the actual function's description, and honestly? iconic behaviour. 😌

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✨ and that's the whole page, bestie ✨

this lil' entry lives in ./drivers/scsi/libfc, dated October 2026, and it's fc_lport_enter_dns(9) — go forth and find that name server, you got this 💜🦋🌸