ns87415_init_one(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ns87415_init_one — like, the Kernel API Manual page you've been waiting for 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the group chat. this is the manual page for ns87415_init_one from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibilities" energy. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ns87415_init_one — register an 87415 ATA PCI device with kernel services. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she introduces your device to the kernel like a good mutual 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ns87415_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev , const struct pci_device_id
*ent );

literally copy it exactly, no cap, don't you dare retype it "cleaner" 🙈

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pdev — the PCI device you're registering. the main character, fr 👑
  • ent — the entry in ns87415_pci_tbl that matches pdev. her plus-one at the function call 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this bad boy gets called from the kernel PCI layer. we probe for combined mode (sigh — yes the sigh is, like, canonically in the source, the devs were tired, we respect it 😭), and then we hand over control to libata so it can do the rest. not us doing the work, we're just the connector. delegation is self-care 💅

LOCKING: inherited from the PCI layer — which may sleep. so like, don't call it somewhere that can't nap, okay? ⭐

🔥 RETURN 🔥

Zero on success, or a -ERRNO value on the sad path. slay when zero, cry when negative 🌈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

start with the kernel file itself: ./drivers/ata/pata_ns87415.c — the whole squad lives there:

👑 every single one, we don't skip the boring ones, that's not the vibe here.

quick reminder bestie: this page lives under ./drivers/ata 🌸

okay that's the whole page, love u, bye 💜

signed off with love from <code>./drivers/ata</code>, dated <strong>October 2026</strong> — that's the source and the date, bestie, and yes I'm putting it in the sign-off because the footer is sacred ✨💖🎀

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