megaraid_fini_mbox(9)

💖 megaraid_fini_mbox(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ and strap in, because today's episode is a short one but a real one. This is megaraid_fini_mbox — the little function that undoes controller initialization. Yes, it's the "jk, never mind" of the megaraid saga. The clean-up queen. The anti-init. We love a function that knows how to say goodbye 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

megaraid_fini_mbox — undo controller initialization 🫶

like, literally the opposite of init. reverse card energy. it takes the controller initialization and… un-takes it. periodt.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void megaraid_fini_mbox (adapter_t *adapter );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. void return, so don't go expecting a status code, bestie, because she gives you nothing back 😭

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• adapter — our soft state 🦋

yep, that's the one and only thing you hand her. our soft state. no more, no less. she takes her soft state and she does her thing with it.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page goes absolutely feral — like, main character energy, the whole friend group got invited. every single one of these is a (9) reference, and every single one is getting named, no cap. iykyk 👑

first up, the kernel file where a lot of this lives:

./drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c

and now the full guest list, in exactly the order they came in, because we do not drop people from the list:

• megaraid_init(9)
• megaraid_exit(9)
• megaraid_probe_one(9)
• megaraid_detach_one(9)
• megaraid_mbox_shutdown(9)
• megaraid_io_attach(9)
• megaraid_io_detach(9)
• megaraid_init_mbox(9)
• megaraid_alloc_cmd_packets(9)
• megaraid_free_cmd_packets(9)
• megaraid_mbox_setup_dma_pools(9)
• megaraid_mbox_teardown_dma_pools(9)
• megaraid_alloc_scb(9)
• megaraid_dealloc_scb(9)
• megaraid_mbox_mksgl(9)
• mbox_post_cmd(9)
• megaraid_queue_command_lck(9)
• megaraid_mbox_build_cmd(9)
• megaraid_mbox_runpendq(9)
• megaraid_mbox_prepare_pthru(9)
• megaraid_mbox_prepare_epthru(9)
• megaraid_ack_sequence(9)
• megaraid_isr(9)
• megaraid_mbox_dpc(9)
• megaraid_abort_handler(9)
• megaraid_reset_handler(9)
• mbox_post_sync_cmd(9)
• mbox_post_sync_cmd_fast(9)
• megaraid_busywait_mbox(9)
• megaraid_mbox_product_info(9)
• megaraid_mbox_extended_cdb(9)
• megaraid_mbox_support_ha(9)
• megaraid_mbox_support_random_del(9)
• megaraid_mbox_get_max_sg(9)
• megaraid_mbox_enum_raid_scsi(9)
• megaraid_mbox_flush_cache(9)
• megaraid_mbox_fire_sync_cmd(9)
• megaraid_mbox_display_scb(9)
• megaraid_mbox_setup_device_map(9)
• megaraid_cmm_register(9)
• megaraid_cmm_unregister(9)
• megaraid_mbox_mm_handler(9)
• megaraid_mbox_mm_command(9)
• megaraid_mbox_mm_done(9)
• gather_hbainfo(9)
• megaraid_sysfs_alloc_resources(9)
• megaraid_sysfs_free_resources(9)
• megaraid_sysfs_get_ldmap_done(9)
• megaraid_sysfs_get_ldmap_timeout(9)
• megaraid_sysfs_get_ldmap(9)
• megaraid_mbox_app_hndl_show(9)
• megaraid_mbox_ld_show(9)

fifty-two of them. fifty-two!! that's not a SEE ALSO, that's a whole group chat 💀 but we got through it, and nobody got left out. slay.

real talk though: if you actually need to know what any of these do, go read their pages — this one is only about megaraid_fini_mbox undoing controller initialization and taking adapter as our soft state. don't go making stuff up, bestie 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 before you go — this lil cutie lives over in ./drivers/scsi/megaraid, and she was dated October 2026, so she's basically from the future 💜 mwah, go undo some initialization, ily 🧚✨