nx842_OF_notifier(9)

💅 nx842_OF_notifier(9) — like, the notifier that keeps up with your OF property glow-ups 🦋

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual bestie, and the star of the show is nx842_OF_notifier — the little function whose whole personality is processing updates to OF properties for the device ✨ no cap, that's literally what it does.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

nx842_OF_notifier — process updates to OF properties for the device. that's it, that's the vibe 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int nx842_OF_notifier (struct notifier_block *np , unsigned long action
, void *data );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• np — the notifier block 🫶
• action — the notifier action, i.e. what's going down
• data — a struct of_reconfig_data pointer 👑

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

so here's the tea: you get NOTIFY_OK on success 💚. on failure you get NOTIFY_BAD, encoded with the error number — and to decode that value you gotta use notifier_to_errno, okay? don't skip that step bestie, it's giving "the number is in there, you just have to unwrap it" 🎁

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• the kernel file ./drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c 📁
• nx842_pseries_compress(9) 💜
• nx842_pseries_decompress(9) 💜
• nx842_OF_set_defaults(9) ⭐
• nx842_OF_upd_status(9) ⭐
• nx842_OF_upd_maxsglen(9) ⭐
• nx842_OF_upd_maxsyncop(9) ⭐
• nx842_OF_upd(9) ⭐

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 it came from ./drivers/crypto/nx, it's dated October 2026, and honestly? iconic. go read the whole source directory, iykyk 🧚‍♀️💅✨