mc_init(9)

💅 mc_init(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you opened the manual for mc_init and you're in the right place, this is the Kernel API Manual page for it, and yes we're gonna get you through it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mc_init — literally just: initialize one driver instance. that's the whole vibe. one instance. one driver. go 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void mc_init (struct mem_ctl_info *mci , struct platform_device *pdev );

returns nothing (void), takes two things, no cap 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• mci — the EDAC memory controller instance. yes THE instance. the main character of this function fr 👑
• pdev — the platform device. it's giving supporting role but it matters 😌

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it do? it performs initialization of the EDAC memory controller instance — and also of the related driver-private data associated with the memory controller that the instance is bound to. like it sets them up. both of them. the instance and the driver-private data. that's the assignment and it ate 🌈

tl;dr: it's the setup function. it does the initializing. iconic behavior honestly ⭐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/edac/versal_edac.c and also these besties:

• union ecc_error_info(9)
• struct ecc_status(9)
• struct edac_priv(9)
• convert_to_physical(9)
• handle_error(9)
• err_callback(9)
• get_dwidth(9)
• get_ecc_state(9)
• get_memsize(9)
• init_csrows(9)
• poison_setup(9)
• setup_address_map(9)

go read them when you're done here, iykyk 📚

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ok that's the whole page bestie, nothing hidden, nothing skipped, we kept every single one of those (9) references because we're thorough like that 💀

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sign-off szn 🧚💜: this gorgeous little page lives under ./drivers/edac, it's dated October 2026, and it goes by mc_init(9) — periodt. 🍓🌷