pci_epc_start(9)

✨ NAME ✨

pci_epc_start — ok so this is the one that literally starts the PCI link 💅 it's from the Kernel API Manual btw, welcome to the group chat 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int pci_epc_start (struct pci_epc *epc );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• epc — the link of this EPC device has to be started. yes bestie, the very one you're holding ✨ (*this* is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and we respect it)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Invoke to start the PCI link 🚀 that's it, that's the whole job. You call it, the link starts, main character energy only 👑

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file ./drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c — that's where the actual lore lives, iykyk 📖

And now, the whole friend group 😭 (all of these are section 9, obviously):

• pci_epc_put(9)
• pci_epc_get(9)
• pci_epc_get_first_free_bar(9)
• pci_epc_get_next_free_bar(9)
• pci_epc_get_features(9)
• pci_epc_get_aux_resources_count(9)
• pci_epc_get_aux_resources(9)
• pci_epc_stop(9)
• pci_epc_raise_irq(9)
• pci_epc_map_msi_irq(9)
• pci_epc_get_msi(9)
• pci_epc_set_msi(9)
• pci_epc_get_msix(9)
• pci_epc_set_msix(9)
• pci_epc_unmap_addr(9)
• pci_epc_map_addr(9)
• pci_epc_mem_map(9)
• pci_epc_mem_unmap(9)
• pci_epc_clear_bar(9)
• pci_epc_set_bar(9)
• pci_epc_bar_size_to_rebar_cap(9)
• pci_epc_write_header(9)
• pci_epc_add_epf(9)
• pci_epc_remove_epf(9)
• pci_epc_linkup(9)
• pci_epc_linkdown(9)
• pci_epc_init_notify(9)
• pci_epc_notify_pending_init(9)
• pci_epc_deinit_notify(9)
• pci_epc_bus_master_enable_notify(9)
• pci_epc_destroy(9)
• __pci_epc_create(9)
• __devm_pci_epc_create(9)

aahhh and that's the whole page!! 💜 this little icon comes from ./drivers/pci/endpoint, dated October 2026, and it's filed under the manual name pci_epc_start(9) — go start that link bestie, you got this 🌈✨🦋