pci_doe_create_mb(9)

🌸 pci_doe_create_mb(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for pci_doe_create_mb(9) — the function that creates a DOE mailbox object. no cap, this is the whole vibe 💖

✨ NAME ✨

pci_doe_create_mb — Create a DOE mailbox object 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct pci_doe_mb * pci_doe_create_mb (struct pci_dev *pdev , u16
       cap_offset );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCI device you're creating the DOE mailbox for, bestie 🫶
• cap_offset — the offset of the DOE mailbox. iconic little coordinate ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this function creates a single mailbox object to manage the mailbox feature at the cap_offset you specify. it's giving “one mailbox, one job” 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• created mailbox object on success 🎉
• ERR_PTR(-errno) on failure 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file: ./drivers/pci/doe.c
• struct pci_doe_mb(9)
• struct pci_doe_task(9)
• pci_doe_destroy_mb(9)
• pci_doe_supports_feat(9)
• pci_doe_submit_task(9)
• pci_doe(9)
• pci_find_doe_mailbox(9)

that's the whole vibe check, bestie. this page lives under source path ./drivers/pci, dated October 2026, and it's the pci_doe_create_mb(9) manual page — periodt. 💜🦋