oem_cable(9)

💖 oem_cable(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the oem_cable page ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's lowkey a tiny little function doing one very specific little job. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

oem_cable — Dell/Sun serverworks cable detection 🌸

like, that's the whole vibe. it detects cables. for Dell and Sun serverworks stuff. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

int oem_cable (struct ata_port *ap );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she takes one pointer and hands you back an int 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ap — the ATA port that we're doing cable detect on 🦋 like, this is the port that gets inspected, bestie, that's the whole assignment

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so this is the tea ☕ — Dell PowerEdge and Sun Cobalt 'Alpine' are out here hiding the 40/80 pin select for their interfaces in the top two bits of the subsystem ID 🙈 like miss girl, why are you being so secretive about it 😭

so yeah. that's where the info lives. top two bits. subsystem ID. no cap 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./drivers/ata/pata_serverworks.c 🍓 (go read it, iykyk)
• serverworks_cable_detect(9)
• serverworks_is_csb(9)
• serverworks_osb4_filter(9)
• serverworks_csb_filter(9)
• serverworks_set_piomode(9)
• serverworks_set_dmamode(9)

the whole serverworks friend group fr fr, go say hi to all of them 💖

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ngl this one is short but she's still main character energy 👑 don't sleep on the tiny manpages bestie, they ate 🔥

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and that's the page!! sign-off time 🎀 this one comes to you from ./drivers/ata, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, love u, bye 💅✨🌸