mpi3mr_refresh_expanders(9)

💅 mpi3mr_refresh_expanders(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🦋

okay so bestie, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, the manual name is mpi3mr_refresh_expanders(9), and it's about one function that does a lil post-reset housekeeping sweep for expander devices. ngl it's short, it's sweet, and it ate. let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mpi3mr_refresh_expanders — literally the "refresh expander device exposure" function. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 💖

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void mpi3mr_refresh_expanders (struct mpi3mr_ioc *mrioc );

no cap, that's the whole signature. returns nothing (it's a void girlie), takes one arg. periodt 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mrioc — your adapter instance reference 🫶 like, the actual controller object you're touching. hand it over and we're in business.

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this one runs post controller reset. after the reset chaos settles, it goes looking for any missing expander devices during reset, and then it either:

• removes them from the upper layers (bye bestie 👋 if you're gone, you're gone), or
• exposes any newly detected expander device to the upper layers (hiii new friend, welcome to the stack 🌈✨)

so it's giving main character energy for the expander topology: it syncs what the upper layers think exists with what actually exists. iconic, honestly 👑

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💜 RETURN 💜

Nothing. void. it gives you zero back, and it's not sorry about it 😭💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group 💖 — and yes, we're listing every single one, because everyone deserves their moment:

• the kernel file: ./drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c 📁
• mpi3mr_post_transport_req(9)
• mpi3mr_report_manufacture(9)
• __mpi3mr_expander_find_by_handle(9)
• mpi3mr_is_expander_device(9)
• mpi3mr_get_sas_address(9)
• __mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr(9)
• mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr(9)
• mpi3mr_remove_device_by_sas_address(9)
• __mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr_and_rphy(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_find_by_sas_address(9)
• __mpi3mr_sas_node_find_by_sas_address(9)
• mpi3mr_parent_present(9)
• mpi3mr_convert_phy_link_rate(9)
• mpi3mr_delete_sas_phy(9)
• mpi3mr_add_sas_phy(9)
• mpi3mr_add_phy_to_an_existing_port(9)
• mpi3mr_delete_sas_port(9)
• mpi3mr_del_phy_from_an_existing_port(9)
• mpi3mr_sas_port_sanity_check(9)
• mpi3mr_set_identify(9)
• mpi3mr_add_host_phy(9)
• mpi3mr_add_expander_phy(9)
• mpi3mr_alloc_hba_port(9)
• mpi3mr_get_hba_port_by_id(9)
• mpi3mr_update_links(9)
• mpi3mr_sas_host_refresh(9)
• mpi3mr_sas_host_add(9)
• mpi3mr_sas_port_add(9)
• mpi3mr_sas_port_remove(9)
• struct host_port(9)
• mpi3mr_update_mr_sas_port(9)
• mpi3mr_refresh_sas_ports(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_node_add(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_add(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_node_remove(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_remove(9)
• mpi3mr_get_sas_negotiated_logical_linkrate(9)
• mpi3mr_report_tgtdev_to_sas_transport(9)
• mpi3mr_remove_tgtdev_from_sas_transport(9)
• mpi3mr_get_port_id_by_sas_phy(9)
• mpi3mr_get_port_id_by_rphy(9)
• mpi3mr_get_expander_phy_error_log(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_get_linkerrors(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_get_enclosure_identifier(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_get_bay_identifier(9)
• mpi3mr_expander_phy_control(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_phy_reset(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_phy_enable(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_phy_speed(9)
• mpi3mr_map_smp_buffer(9)
• mpi3mr_unmap_smp_buffer(9)
• mpi3mr_transport_smp_handler(9)

ngl that's a long list but like… they're all connected, iykyk 🧚‍♀️

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✨ that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this lil gem ships out of ./drivers/scsi/mpi3mr and the date on it is October 2026 — so yeah, we're reading from the future and it's still giving 💖🎀💅