nanddev_init(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💫 nanddev_init(9) — Kernel API Manual 💫

okay so this is nanddev_init(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's literally the "wake up bestie, we're going to NAND town" function 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

nanddev_init — Initialize a NAND device 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int nanddev_init (struct nand_device *nand , const struct nand_ops *ops
, struct module *owner );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • nand — the NAND device, the main character of this whole situation 👑
  • ops — the NAND device operations, aka the little move set this device pulls
  • owner — the NAND device owner, holding it down

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this one initializes a NAND device object, right? Like, full glow-up, getting it ready for the world ✨

It also does consistency checks on ops and on nand->memorg — because we do NOT let just anything through the vibe check, no cap 🙈

And yes, it also takes care of initializing the BBT. not me remembering BBT duty, but okay, we love a multitasking icon 🫶

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 in case of success 🎉 — and a negative error code otherwise 😭 (iykyk)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/mtd/nand/core.c, plus the whole friend group: nand_check_erased_buf(9), nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk(9), nanddev_isbad(9), nanddev_markbad(9), nanddev_isreserved(9), nanddev_erase(9), nanddev_mtd_erase(9), nanddev_mtd_max_bad_blocks(9), nanddev_get_ecc_engine(9), nanddev_put_ecc_engine(9), nanddev_find_ecc_configuration(9), nanddev_ecc_engine_init(9), nanddev_ecc_engine_cleanup(9), nanddev_cleanup(9) ⭐

that's the whole page bestie, ily, go init some NAND devices and slay 🧚💜

— from ./drivers/mtd/nand, dated October 2026 🍓

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