mei_cl_bus_dev_add(9)

💅 mei_cl_bus_dev_add(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual bestie 🎀

okay so real talk, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the function we're stanning is mei_cl_bus_dev_add. yes it's a whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

mei_cl_bus_dev_add — the girl whose entire job is adding me client devices 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int mei_cl_bus_dev_add (struct mei_cl_device *cldev);

like, she takes one arg, she returns an int. simple. iconic. periodt. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• cldev — the me client device 💖 yes that's it, that's the whole arg, she's lowkey chill like that

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 — slayed, success, we love to see it ✨
• < 0 — it's giving failure 😭 not the vibe, but at least she tells you

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

okay bestie, this is the part where the page absolutely pops off — the whole friend group is here, and ./drivers/misc/mei/bus.c is the main character file all of this lives in 🏠✨ iykyk

• __mei_cl_send(9)
• __mei_cl_send_timeout(9)
• __mei_cl_recv(9)
• mei_cldev_send_vtag(9)
• mei_cldev_send_vtag_timeout(9)
• mei_cldev_recv_vtag(9)
• mei_cldev_recv_timeout(9)
• mei_cldev_recv_vtag_timeout(9)
• mei_cldev_send(9)
• mei_cldev_send_timeout(9)
• mei_cldev_recv(9)
• mei_cl_bus_rx_work(9)
• mei_cl_bus_notif_work(9)
• mei_cl_bus_notify_event(9)
• mei_cl_bus_rx_event(9)
• mei_cldev_register_rx_cb(9)
• mei_cldev_register_notif_cb(9)
• mei_cldev_get_drvdata(9)
• mei_cldev_set_drvdata(9)
• mei_cldev_uuid(9)
• mei_cldev_ver(9)
• mei_cldev_mtu(9)
• mei_cldev_enabled(9)
• mei_cl_bus_module_get(9)
• mei_cl_bus_module_put(9)
• mei_cl_bus_vtag(9)
• mei_cl_bus_vtag_alloc(9)
• mei_cl_bus_vtag_free(9)
• mei_cldev_enable(9)
• mei_cldev_unregister_callbacks(9)
• mei_cldev_disable(9)
• mei_cldev_send_gsc_command(9)
• mei_cl_device_find(9)
• mei_cl_device_match(9)
• mei_cl_device_probe(9)
• mei_cl_device_remove(9)
• mei_cl_device_uevent(9)
• mei_cl_bus_set_name(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_setup(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_stop(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_destroy(9)
• mei_cl_bus_remove_device(9)
• mei_cl_bus_remove_devices(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_init(9)
• mei_cl_bus_rescan(9)

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ngl that's a lot of cross-references and every single one of them is here, bestie 💀 i did not skip a single one, i would never do that to you 🫶

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signing off from ./drivers/misc/mei, dated October 2026 — mwah, go read some kernel source, it's giving scholar energy 👑💜