mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc(9)

💖 mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc(9) — Kernel API Manual glow-up 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc(9), bestie 💖 This one is short and sweet: it initializes and allocates a mei client device. Main character energy, honestly.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc — initialize and allocate mei client device ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the signature, fr fr — copy it exactly, no freestyling:

struct mei_cl_device * mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc (struct mei_device *bus ,
       struct mei_me_client *me_cl );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• bus — mei device. This is the mei device, bestie.
• me_cl — me client. And this is the me client.

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💅 RETURN 💅

Returns the allocated device structure, or NULL on allocation failure. If allocation fails, it’s giving NULL — not the cute kind 😭

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Kernel file: ./drivers/misc/mei/bus.c — go read the source, iykyk. And here’s the whole squad, every reference exactly as the page says:

• __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_setup(9)
• mei_cl_bus_dev_add(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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Signing off from ./drivers/misc/mei — October 2026 🎀✨