mei_cl_link(9)

💅 mei_cl_link(9) — allocate host id in the host map

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and we’re making it cute. The star is mei_cl_link(9), and its whole job is allocate host id in the host map. slay. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mei_cl_link — allocate host id in the host map

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int mei_cl_link (struct mei_cl *cl );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cl — host client

🦋 RETURN 🦋

• 0 on success
• -EINVAL on incorrect values
• -EMFILE if open count exceeded

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/client.c — and honestly, the whole SEE ALSO guest list is here, no skips, no crumbs:

• mei_me_cl_init(9)
• mei_me_cl_get(9)
• mei_me_cl_release(9)
• mei_me_cl_put(9)
• __mei_me_cl_del(9)
• mei_me_cl_del(9)
• mei_me_cl_add(9)
• __mei_me_cl_by_uuid(9)
• mei_me_cl_by_uuid(9)
• mei_me_cl_by_id(9)
• __mei_me_cl_by_uuid_id(9)
• mei_me_cl_by_uuid_id(9)
• mei_me_cl_rm_by_uuid(9)
• mei_me_cl_rm_all(9)
• mei_io_cb_free(9)
• mei_tx_cb_enqueue(9)
• mei_tx_cb_dequeue(9)
• mei_cl_set_read_by_fp(9)
• mei_io_cb_init(9)
• mei_io_list_flush_cl(9)
• mei_io_tx_list_free_cl(9)
• mei_io_rd_list_free_fp(9)
• mei_cl_free_pending(9)
• mei_cl_alloc_cb(9)
• mei_cl_enqueue_ctrl_wr_cb(9)
• mei_cl_read_cb(9)
• mei_cl_flush_queues(9)
• mei_cl_init(9)
• mei_cl_allocate(9)
• mei_cl_unlink(9)
• mei_hbuf_acquire(9)
• mei_cl_wake_all(9)
• mei_cl_set_disconnected(9)
• mei_cl_irq_disconnect(9)
• __mei_cl_disconnect(9)
• mei_cl_disconnect(9)
• mei_cl_is_other_connecting(9)
• mei_cl_send_connect(9)
• mei_cl_irq_connect(9)
• mei_cl_connect(9)
• mei_cl_alloc_linked(9)
• mei_cl_tx_flow_ctrl_creds(9)
• mei_cl_tx_flow_ctrl_creds_reduce(9)
• mei_cl_vtag_alloc(9)
• mei_cl_fp_by_vtag(9)
• mei_cl_reset_read_by_vtag(9)
• mei_cl_read_vtag_add_fc(9)
• mei_cl_vt_support_check(9)
• mei_cl_add_rd_completed(9)
• mei_cl_del_rd_completed(9)
• mei_cl_notify_fop2req(9)
• mei_cl_notify_req2fop(9)
• mei_cl_irq_notify(9)
• mei_cl_notify_request(9)
• mei_cl_notify(9)
• mei_cl_notify_get(9)
• mei_cl_read_start(9)
• mei_msg_hdr_init(9)
• mei_cl_irq_write(9)
• mei_cl_write(9)
• mei_cl_complete(9)
• mei_cl_all_disconnect(9)
• mei_cl_irq_dma_map(9)
• mei_cl_irq_dma_unmap(9)
• mei_cl_dma_alloc_and_map(9)
• mei_cl_dma_unmap(9)

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