mei_ioctl_c...tify_request(9)
π NAME π
Okay bestie, listen up β this is the page for mei_ioctl_client_notify_request from the Kernel API Manual, and what it does is literally propagate event notification request to client. That's the whole vibe. It's the little messenger that tells your client "hey girl, something happened" (or "nvm, chill"). π
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
int mei_ioctl_client_notify_request (const struct file *file , u32 request );
That's the whole signature, no cap β takes a file and a request and hands you back an int. π«Ά
π ARGUMENTS π
fileβ pointer to file structure. Just a pointer to the file struct, that's it, that's the whole job. π¦requestβ the toggle, and it's giving binary queen:0means disable,1means enable. That's it. Iconic.
πΈ RETURN πΈ
0on success β¨<0on error π (so like, if you see a negative number, something went sideways β check the vibe)
π SEE ALSO π
This list is long bestie, so buckle up β these are all the siblings in the family, and yes I'm listing every single one because we don't skip people here π
Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/main.c plus:
mei_open(9)mei_cl_vtag_remove_by_fp(9)mei_release(9)mei_read(9)mei_cl_vtag_by_fp(9)mei_write(9)mei_ioctl_connect_client(9)mei_vt_support_check(9)mei_ioctl_connect_vtag(9)mei_ioctl_client_notify_get(9)mei_ioctl(9)mei_poll(9)mei_cl_is_write_queued(9)mei_fsync(9)mei_fasync(9)trc_show(9)fw_status_show(9)hbm_ver_show(9)hbm_ver_drv_show(9)fw_ver_show(9)dev_state_show(9)mei_set_devstate(9)kind_show(9)mei_minor_get(9)mei_minor_free(9)
Ngl, the notify_get one right above is literally this function's counterpart β go read it too, iykyk π
And that's the page, bestie! This little gem lives in ./drivers/misc/mei, dated October 2026 β so mark your calendar, screenshot the date, put it in the group chat, bc she's official. ποΈπ Mwah, study hard, slay hard. π§β¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixpkgs unstable: linux-manual 7.3.1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms