mei_start(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to the mei_start(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖

mei_start — initializes host and fw to start work. That’s the whole vibe. Slay. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int mei_start (struct mei_device *dev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — the device structure. That’s it, that’s the argument, no cap 💅

🌸 RETURN 🌸

• 0 on success 🎀
• <0 on failure 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/init.c
• mei_fw_status2str(9)
• mei_cancel_work(9)
• mei_reset(9)
• mei_restart(9)
• mei_write_is_idle(9)
• mei_device_init(9)

Source/version vibes: ./drivers/misc/mei 💅 date: October 2026 🎀. Bye bestie, go initialize that host and fw! 🫶✨