fc_rport_lookup(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

👑 fc_rport_lookup — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so this is fc_rport_lookup(9), bestie — it lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the "hey, who's that remote port?" function. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

fc_rport_lookup — look up a remote port by its port_id, that's it, that's the gig 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct fc_rport_priv * fc_rport_lookup (const struct fc_lport *lport ,
u32 port_id );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • lport — the local port you're doing the lookin'-up from, iykyk 🌈
  • port_id — the remote port ID you're tryna find, go off 🔍

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

the reference count of the fc_rport_priv structure gets bumped up by one. that's it!! one (1) whole reference. so like, you now hold a ref and you're responsible for it, periodt. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

everything else in the fam, all living in the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_rport.c — main character files only, ngl:

so many siblings, it's giving big family energy 😭💜

lowkey reminder: that refcount went up by one, so don't just walk away from it — that's not very bestie of you 🙈

⭐ and that's the page!! this one came from ./drivers/scsi/libfc, dated October 2026, and it's fc_rport_lookup(9) — slay, go look up some remote ports, mwah 💋🎀

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