lpfc_sli4_f...isc_wait_tmo(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 lpfc_sli4_fcf_redisc_wait_tmo(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this page filename is literally lpfc_sli4_f...isc_wait_tmo(9) because somebody's terminal wasn't wide enough, but the function's government name is lpfc_sli4_fcf_redisc_wait_tmo. she's a timeout handler in the lpfc driver and honestly? kind of a baddie. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

lpfc_sli4_fcf_redisc_wait_tmo — FCF table rediscover wait timeout 🕐

like, the vibe is: "the wait timer for FCF table rediscovery has officially run out of patience."

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void lpfc_sli4_fcf_redisc_wait_tmo (struct timer_list *t );

she takes one arg, returns nothing, and yes that is the whole signature — no cap 💅

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • t — the timer context, and the way this works is so cute: it's used to obtain the pointer to the lpfc hba data structure. that's her little treasure map to the adapter 🗺️✨

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so this routine gets invoked when the wait for FCF table rediscover has timed out 💀⏰ like, the clock ran out, the situation is what it is.

and here's the glow-up 🫶: if new FCF record(s) has (have) been discovered during that wait period, then:

  1. a new FCF event shall be added to the FCOE async event list 📝
  2. and then the worker thread shall be waked up so the whole thing gets processed — from the worker thread context, not from here, iykyk 🧚‍♀️💖

no new records? no event. that's the whole plot. and honestly she ate. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the manpage just keeps going and going 😭 but we're listing every single one because we don't do "tl;dr" in this house. all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c:

fr fr that's the whole list, and every single one of them is a (9) page. drink some water after reading all that 💧🫶

🎀 the sign-off 🎀

this whole legend lives in ./drivers/scsi/lpfc, and she's stamped October 2026 — dated like she's from the future, which honestly tracks for a timer function ⏳👑 go read your kernel source bestie, that's where the real lore is 💖✨🦋

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