mei_me_reg_read(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 mei_me_reg_read — read the tea (and 32 bits) from your mei device 💖

okay so bestie, this is mei_me_reg_read from the Linux kernel API manual, and no cap, it's a whole little legend. it's giving "tiny function, huge friend group" — literally every single one of its besties is down there in SEE ALSO. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mei_me_reg_read — reads 32bit data from the mei device 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u32 mei_me_reg_read (const struct mei_me_hw *hw , unsigned long offset );

like, that's the whole vibe. you hand it a hardware struct and an offset, it hands you back a u32. simple. iconic. periodt.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — the me hardware structure. yes queen, the whole struct, we love a pointer to a const struct mei_me_hw 💅
  • offset — offset from which to read the data. that's your little address-y coordinate, an unsigned long, telling it exactly where to go look 👀

🦋 RETURN 🦋

register value (u32) ✨

that's it, that's the return. it just gives you back a u32 and minds its business. lowkey the most well-adjusted function in the file ngl.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay bestie sit down because the friend group is enormous. literally the main character energy of ./drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c — every single one of these:

and yes, mei_me_intr_disable(9) shows up twice in the source list — not me editing, that's just how it's written, so we're keeping it fr fr 🙈

and that's the whole page bestie, it ate and left no crumbs 💜 this lil gem lives in ./drivers/misc/mei and it's dated October 2026 — so literally from the future, main character behavior only 💫 slay 🎀

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