mei_hbm_idle(9)

💅 mei_hbm_idle(9) — kernel API manual energy ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mei_hbm_idle(9) 🌸 this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she does one (1) thing. no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

mei_hbm_idle — sets hbm to the idle state 💤 like literally just vibes-off mode for hbm, that's the whole job.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void mei_hbm_idle (struct mei_device *dev );

that's it. that's the signature. void in, void out, no return value, she gives nothing back and honestly? iconic behavior 👑

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — the device structure 💖 like, the actual device she's going to flip into idle. hand her the struct mei_device * and she'll take it from there.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group fr fr — go check out the kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c and then these besties:

• mei_cl_conn_status_to_errno(9)
• mei_hbm_write_message(9)
• mei_hbm_reset(9)
• mei_hbm_hdr(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_hdr(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_write(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_addr_equal(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_find_by_cmd(9)
• mei_hbm_start_wait(9)
• mei_hbm_start_req(9)
• mei_hbm_dma_setup_req(9)
• mei_hbm_capabilities_req(9)
• mei_hbm_enum_clients_req(9)
• mei_hbm_me_cl_add(9)
• mei_hbm_add_cl_resp(9)
• mei_hbm_fw_add_cl_req(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_notify_req(9)
• notify_res_to_fop(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_notify_start_res(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_notify_stop_res(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_notify(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_dma_map_req(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_dma_unmap_req(9)
• mei_hbm_prop_req(9)
• mei_hbm_pg(9)
• mei_hbm_stop_req(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_flow_control_req(9)
• mei_hbm_add_single_tx_flow_ctrl_creds(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_tx_flow_ctrl_creds_res(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_disconnect_req(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_disconnect_rsp(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_disconnect_res(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_connect_req(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_connect_res(9)
• mei_hbm_cl_res(9)
• mei_hbm_fw_disconnect_req(9)
• mei_hbm_pg_enter_res(9)
• mei_hbm_pg_resume(9)
• mei_hbm_pg_exit_res(9)
• mei_hbm_config_features(9)
• mei_hbm_version_is_supported(9)
• mei_hbm_dispatch(9)

like I said. the whole group chat 🫶✨

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heads up bestie: this page is only about setting hbm to idle — don't go reading extra behavior into it, she's not that kind of function 🙈

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and that's the tea 🍓 this lil page comes from ./drivers/misc/mei and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, future-dated slay 💜 go forth and idle ur hbm, ily, bye 🧚✨🌈