map_wmi_error(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, meet map_wmi_error(9) from the Kernel API Manual. its whole thing is mapping errors from WMI methods to kernel error codes. that's it, that's the vibe, and it ate. 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is literally:

int map_wmi_error (int error_code );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• error_code — integer error code returned from Dell's firmware. hand it over and let the function do its lil mapping moment 🍓

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad, no cap:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
• populate_string_buffer(9)
• calculate_string_buffer(9)
• calculate_security_buffer(9)
• populate_security_buffer(9)
• reset_bios_show(9)
• reset_bios_store(9)
• pending_reboot_show(9)
• create_attributes_level_sysfs_files(9)
• strlcpy_attr(9)
• get_wmiobj_pointer(9)
• get_instance_count(9)
• alloc_attributes_data(9)
• destroy_attribute_objs(9)
• release_attributes_data(9)
• init_bios_attributes(9)

mwah 💋 this page is map_wmi_error(9), source/version ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/de..., dated October 2026. ty for reading my roman empire 🫶🌈