fnic_fcoe_fi...scovery_resp(9)

👑 NAME 👑

fnic_fcoe_fip_discovery_resp — ok so this one processes FCF advertisements and honestly it's giving "the most popular girl in school gets a million messages" energy 💅✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void fnic_fcoe_fip_discovery_resp (struct fnic *fnic , struct fip_header
*fiph );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fnic — the handle to your fnic driver instance 🫶 like, this is the whole personality of the driver right here.
• fiph — the received frame fr fr, the actual ad that just slid into your inbox 💌

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay bestie, FCF advertisements can be two whole vibes and you need to know both 👇

solicited — this is when it's sent in response to a "discover FCF" FIP request. So you slide in, ask who's out there, and they respond 🦋 What we do: store the information of the FCF with the highest priority. And if there are multiple FCFs? We wait until timeout, no cap — like, don't rush the group chat, let everyone answer first ⏳💖

unsolicited — this one is sent periodically by the FCF just for keep alive, it's the "hey just checking in bestie 💕" text. And the rule is: if FLOGI is in progress or completed, and the advertisement is received by our selected FCF, then you refresh the keep alive timer. That's it, that's the whole thing 🔥

ngl the priority + timeout thing matters — multiple FCFs showing up at once is real, and you don't just pick the first one that texts back 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/fnic/fip.c — and the whole friend group, go say hi to all of them:

• fnic_fcoe_reset_vlans(9)
• fnic_fcoe_send_vlan_req(9)
• fnic_fcoe_process_vlan_resp(9)
• fnic_fcoe_start_fcf_discovery(9)
• fnic_fcoe_start_flogi(9)
• fnic_fcoe_process_flogi_resp(9)
• fnic_common_fip_cleanup(9)
• fnic_fcoe_process_cvl(9)
• fdls_fip_recv_frame(9)
• fnic_handle_fip_timer(9)
• fnic_handle_enode_ka_timer(9)
• fnic_handle_vn_ka_timer(9)
• fnic_vlan_discovery_timeout(9)
• fnic_work_on_fcs_ka_timer(9)
• fnic_handle_fcs_ka_timer(9)

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page, and it lives in ./drivers/scsi/fnic as of October 2026 — fnic_fcoe_fi...scovery_resp(9) stays iconic, periodt 🌈⭐