kioc_to_mimd(9)

💅 kioc_to_mimd — from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 (kernel API, bestie) 🎀

okay so picture this: you've got a fresh new-format packet in kernel space and you need it back in the old format. that's the whole gig. the function is kioc_to_mimd and it is literally the converter from new back to old format ✨ it's giving time-travel but make it ioctl 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int kioc_to_mimd (uioc_t *kioc , mimd_t __user *mimd );

that's it. that's the whole signature. two args, returns an int, no cap 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• kioc — the kernel space IOCTL packet, and listen: it has to be successfully issued first, okay? like, this is not a "just vibes" pointer, it's a packet that already made it through. main character energy only 👑
• mimd — the user space MIMD packet. this is the destination, the glow-up zone, where the old-format goodness lands 🫶 (and yes bestie, that __user is right there in the signature, do not come for me 🙈)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where I introduce you to the whole friend group. all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c and honestly? iconic lineup:

• mraid_mm_open(9)
• mraid_mm_ioctl(9)
• mraid_mm_get_adapter(9)
• handle_drvrcmd(9)
• mimd_to_kioc(9) — yes, the reverse of this one, they're siblings, it's giving mirror selfie 🪞
• mraid_mm_attach_buf(9)
• mraid_mm_alloc_kioc(9)
• mraid_mm_dealloc_kioc(9)
• lld_ioctl(9)
• ioctl_done(9)
• lld_timedout(9)
• hinfo_to_cinfo(9)
• mraid_mm_register_adp(9)
• mraid_mm_adapter_app_handle(9)
• mraid_mm_setup_dma_pools(9)
• mraid_mm_unregister_adp(9)
• mraid_mm_free_adp_resources(9)
• mraid_mm_teardown_dma_pools(9)
• mraid_mm_init(9)
• mraid_mm_exit(9)

go read them, they ate, periodt 💖

ngl, if you were looking for a big scary warning section, there isn't one here — the only rule the page gives you is that kioc must have been successfully issued. respect the packet, bestie 🌈

and that's the page!! 🎀 this whole thing ships from ./drivers/scsi/megaraid, dated October 2026, out of the Kernel API Manual — so like, future vibes, iykyk ⭐ slay, go convert some packets 💜