iwl_mei_device_state(9)

💖 iwl_mei_device_state(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes this whole page lives in there, and it's short but it matters, so pay attention 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iwl_mei_device_state — the function you must call whenever the device flips between up and down state. no cap, "must" is doing heavy lifting there 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void iwl_mei_device_state (bool up );

that's it. one function, one bool, zero drama 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• up — pass true if the device is up, and false if it isn't. that's the whole vibe check 🔥 literally binary, she ate 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

right so, this one is a long guest list, but every single one of them is invited, so here we go bestie 🧚

• The kernel file itself: ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/iwl-mei.h — go read it, it's giving source of truth 📖

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_pldr_req(9)
• iwl_mei_alive_notif(9)

like I said. everyone is here. main character energy 🌈⭐

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page — signed off from ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i... with a date stamp of October 2026, and yeah, the manual name on the tin was iwl_mei_device_state(9) all along 🎀