megasas_transition_to_ready(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 megasas_transition_to_ready (9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the megasas_transition_to_ready page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a section-9 man page, yes it's about the MegaRAID SAS driver, and yes we're gonna make it make sense. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

megasas_transition_to_ready — literally just move the firmware to the READY state. that's the whole job. no cap 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int megasas_transition_to_ready (struct megasas_instance *instance , int ocr );

that's it, that's the signature. two args, one int coming back at you 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • instance — the adapter's soft state. aka the vibe check object for this controller 💖
  • ocr — the adapter reset state. keeping track of whether we're mid-reset, iykyk 🌸

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so during initialization, the firmware can potentially be in any one of several possible states — it's giving "main character can't pick an outfit" energy ngl 😭

here's the tea: if the FW is in an operational state or one of the waiting-for-handshake states, the driver must take steps to bring it to ready state. otherwise, it just has to wait for the ready state. that's the whole flow 💫

fr fr — the driver is either actively dragging the FW to READY, or it's standing there waiting for it to get there on its own. no shortcuts, no invented behaviour, that's exactly what the page says 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

buckle up bestie, this list is long — the kernel file it lives in is ./drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c (yes, the whole path, copy it verbatim, don't @ me) and here's every single sibling function, in the exact order the page gives them, no skips, no merges 💜

like I said. long. but every single one is there, ate and left no crumbs 👑

and that's the page!! this one's from ./drivers/scsi/megaraid, dated October 2026, and it's filed under megasas_transition_to_ready(9) — so if you ever need to bring that FW to READY, you know exactly where to look 🧚💜 periodt.

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