fc_lport_enter_fdmi(9)

💅 fc_lport_enter_fdmi(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie

okay so you found this page in the Kernel API Manual and you're like "what even is this" — don't worry, i gotchu 🫶 it's a whole little function living its truth and we're gonna read it together, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

fc_lport_enter_fdmi — literally creates a fc_rport for the management server 👑 like that's the whole job and it ate

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void fc_lport_enter_fdmi (struct fc_lport *lport );

it returns void, so like… nothing comes back. no little gift. just vibes and side effects 💫

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• lport — the local port that's out here requesting a remote port for the management server 🦋 she's the main character of this call, periodt

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

okay this list is long long, but every single one matters so i'm not skipping a single crumb 🙈 first up, our home base:

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_lport.c

and then the whole friend group:

• 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_dns(9)
• fc_lport_enter_ms(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)

ngl that's fifty-plus references and i listed every one of them because we don't do half-finished energy here 💅✨

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🌈 a lil sign-off 🌈

this absolute icon of a page comes from ./drivers/scsi/libfc, dated October 2026 ⭐ so yeah, that's the source, that's the version, that's the era. go forth and create that fc_rport for the management server, bestie — you're gonna slay 🔥👑