isci_remote_device_alloc(9)

💖 isci_remote_device_alloc(9) 💖

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and we're talking about isci_remote_device_alloc — bestie, it's a kernel function, it's giving driver-internals realness, and yes we're gonna read the whole thing together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

isci_remote_device_alloc — literally it, that's the name, no long subtitle, the name IS the whole personality 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct isci_remote_device * isci_remote_device_alloc (struct isci_host
*ihost , struct isci_port *iport );

so it takes two things and hands you back a struct isci_remote_device *, periodt ✨

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• ihost — this parameter specifies the isci host object. the host. the main character, honestly 👑
• iport — this parameter specifies the isci_port connected to this device. like, which port this device is vibing on 🔌

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: this function builds the isci_remote_device when a libsas dev_found message is received. that's the moment. that's the whole plot 🎬

and what does it give back? pointer to new isci_remote_device. that's it, that's the return, a fresh new device pointer, no cap 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/isci/remote_device.c — go read it, iykyk 📖

and the whole friend group, all of them, no skipping:

• isci_remote_device_ready(9)
• isci_remote_device_not_ready(9)
• sci_remote_device_destruct(9)
• isci_remote_device_deconstruct(9)
• sci_remote_device_construct(9)
• sci_remote_device_start(9)
• isci_remote_device_stop(9)
• isci_remote_device_gone(9)
• isci_remote_device_found(9)

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fr fr bestie, if you're poking at SCSI/iSCI internals in the kernel, read the source file above before you touch anything — that's just good manners 🙈

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and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 💅 the source lives under ./drivers/scsi/isci and the date on this one is October 2026, so go forth and be iconic, mwah 🍓🧚‍♀️