ipc_protocol_init(9)

✨ ipc_protocol_init(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this lil page is literally all about ipc_protocol_init, which is the function that allocates an IPC protocol instance. manifesting one for u rn 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ipc_protocol_init — allocates the IPC protocol instance ✨ that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it slayfully 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct iosm_protocol * ipc_protocol_init (struct iosm_imem *ipc_imem );

like, you hand her one pointer and she hands you back a whole protocol instance. iconic behaviour tbh 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ipc_imem — pointer to the iosm_imem structure 🧚 that's the one (1) thing you gotta give her. no more, no less, periodt.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

On success you get the address of the IPC protocol instance — yay!! 🎉 And on failure? You get NULL 😭 so pls pls pls check your return value, bestie, don't just rawdog it and dereference. that's the vibe check and it's highkey non-negotiable 💀

fr fr: success → valid address 💖 · failure → NULL 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group 🫶 go read these next, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wwan/iosm/iosm_ipc_protocol.h 📄
• struct ipc_protocol_context_info(9)
• struct ipc_protocol_device_info(9)
• struct ipc_protocol_ap_shm(9)
• struct iosm_protocol(9)
• struct ipc_call_msg_send_args(9)
• ipc_protocol_tq_msg_send(9)
• ipc_protocol_msg_send(9)
• ipc_protocol_suspend(9)
• ipc_protocol_s2idle_sleep(9)
• ipc_protocol_resume(9)
• ipc_protocol_pm_dev_sleep_handle(9)
• ipc_protocol_doorbell_trigger(9)
• ipc_protocol_sleep_notification_string(9)
• ipc_protocol_deinit(9)

and when you're done allocating, ipc_protocol_deinit(9) is right there to clean up after you — balance, bestie, always balance the vibe ✨

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kisses and good luck out there 🍓💜 — this one came from ./drivers/net/wwan/iosm, dated October 2026, and lives in the Kernel API Manual 💅🎀🌟