nvec_request_master(9)

💅 nvec_request_master(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for nvec_request_master, and no cap this one is so much chiller than it sounds 🫶 it's giving "little worker function that could" and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nvec_request_master — literally here to process outgoing messages 📨✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void nvec_request_master (struct work_struct *work );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's short, she's sweet, she returns void (so like, don't expect anything back, she's not that kind of function 💀).

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• work — a struct work_struct, specifically the tx_worker member of struct nvec_chip. yes bestie, that one. the work struct girlies know 👑

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the vibe: this function processes all the outgoing requests by sending the request, then awaiting the response, then continuing on to the next request. one at a time, in order, no cutting the line 🙈

and then — and this part is lowkey satisfying — once a request has a matching response, it gets freed and removed from the list. matching up, cleaning up, moving on. main character energy fr fr 💅✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group, assembled 🌈:

• Kernel file ./drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c
• enum nvec_msg_category(9)
• nvec_register_notifier(9)
• nvec_unregister_notifier(9)
• nvec_msg_alloc(9)
• nvec_msg_free(9)
• nvec_msg_is_event(9)
• nvec_msg_size(9)
• nvec_gpio_set_value(9)
• nvec_write_async(9)
• nvec_write_sync(9)
• nvec_toggle_global_events(9)
• nvec_event_mask(9)
• parse_msg(9)
• nvec_dispatch(9)
• nvec_tx_completed(9)
• nvec_rx_completed(9)
• nvec_invalid_flags(9)
• nvec_tx_set(9)
• tegra_i2c_writel(9)
• nvec_interrupt(9)

iykyk 💖

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aaand that's the page! 🧚 this one lives in ./drivers/staging/nvec, dated October 2026 — so like, future-core of it all. go read the source, bestie, it slays 🍓👑