iwl_mei_alive_notif(9)

💖 iwl_mei_alive_notif(9) 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today, and this page is about iwl_mei_alive_notif — no cap, it's a whole tiny little function with a big job. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

iwl_mei_alive_notif — the one you must call when the alive notification (notificaiton in the source, and honestly? we respect her spelling era 💅) comes through.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void iwl_mei_alive_notif (bool success );

that's it. one bool. she's lowkey minimal. ✨

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• success — pass true if the alive notification was actually received, and false if we were just sitting there waiting for the notification and it timed out 😭. fr fr, that's the whole vibe check for this argument.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

get comfy, this list is long and we're reading all of it, no skipping 🙈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/iwl-mei.h

and the whole friend group:

• Introduction(9)
• Life cycle(9)
• Memory layout(9)
• Concurrency(9)
• Probe and remove from mei bus driver(9)
• Driver load when CSME owns the device(9)
• CSME behavior regarding the ownership requests(9)
• Driver load when CSME is associated and a session is active(9)
• Datapath(9)
• enum iwl_mei_nvm_caps(9)
• struct iwl_mei_nvm(9)
• enum iwl_mei_pairwise_cipher(9)
• enum iwl_mei_akm_auth(9)
• struct iwl_mei_conn_info(9)
• struct iwl_mei_colloc_info(9)
• enum iwl_mei_sap_version(9)
• iwl_mei_is_connected(9)
• iwl_mei_get_nvm(9)
• iwl_mei_get_ownership(9)
• iwl_mei_set_rfkill_state(9)
• iwl_mei_set_nic_info(9)
• iwl_mei_set_country_code(9)
• iwl_mei_set_power_limit(9)
• iwl_mei_register(9)
• iwl_mei_start_unregister(9)
• iwl_mei_unregister_complete(9)
• iwl_mei_set_netdev(9)
• iwl_mei_tx_copy_to_csme(9)
• iwl_mei_host_associated(9)
• iwl_mei_host_disassociated(9)
• iwl_mei_device_state(9)
• iwl_mei_pldr_req(9)

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💀 reminder bestie: call this when the alive notification lands. that's the assignment. periodt.

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okay that's the page!! sourced from ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i... (yes it's cut off in the original, we're not gonna pretend otherwise 😭) and dated October 2026 — manifesting that energy for us all, mwah 💖✨🎀🌈👑