mei_me_irq_quick_handler(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 mei_me_irq_quick_handler(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it cute

Okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about a kernel API manual page — specifically mei_me_irq_quick_handler(9), which lives in section 9 of the kernel API manual. Yes, section 9. That's the "we write kernel docs here" section. Iconic. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mei_me_irq_quick_handler — literally the ISR of the MEI device. That's it, that's the whole name section. Short, sweet, main character energy. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

irqreturn_t mei_me_irq_quick_handler (int irq , void *dev_id );

Look at that signature. Gorgeous. No cap. ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • irq — the irq number. That's the number of the irq. Keep it safe, bestie. 🔥
  • dev_id — pointer to the device structure. It's a pointer. To the device structure. Don't lose the *, I'm begging. 😭

💜 RETURN 💜

irqreturn_t. That's the return type, and yes, that's all the original says about it. So that's all I'm gonna say about it. Periodt. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

So this function lives in the kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c, and honestly the friend group here is huge. Everyone in this list is a (9) page, so you already know they're all hanging out in the same section, being documented together. Let me introduce the whole squad, no one gets left out: 😤

Yeah. That's a lot of friends. Every single one of them is in the list, not a single one dropped — I counted, and I am not about to be the girl who loses a (9) page. 🙈

Bestie reminder: this is a "quick handler", so it's the fast part of the IRQ story — but the page doesn't tell us anything more about what it does beyond being the ISR of the MEI device, so I'm not gonna make stuff up. We stay truthful in this group chat. 💀

And that's the page, bestie! 🫶 This little cutie comes from the kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei, the manual source is the Kernel API Manual, and it's dated October 2026 — yes, the future. Very forward-thinking of it. 🌈 Signed off with love, mei_me_irq_quick_handler(9), mwah. 💖🎀✨

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