pci_ide_stream_enable(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to pci_ide_stream_enable(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this is the icon that enables a Selective IDE Stream. slay.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pci_ide_stream_enable (struct pci_dev *pdev , struct pci_ide *ide );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCIe device object for either a Root Port or an Endpoint Partner Port 🌸
• ide — the registered and setup IDE settings descriptor ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, this activates the stream by writing to the Selective IDE Stream Control Register. main character energy fr fr 👑

⚠️ heads up bestie: the state may go "insecure" at any point after returning 0, but those events are equivalent to a "link down" event and are handled via asynchronous error reporting 👀 don't panic.

Also, the caller is responsible for clearing the enable bit in the -ENXIO case — don't forget, iykyk 💀

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 — the stream successfully entered the "secure" state 🎉
• -EINVAL — if ide is invalid 🙈
• -ENXIO — if the stream fails to enter the secure state 💀

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

Kernel file: ./drivers/pci/ide.c 📁

• pci_ide_stream_alloc(9)
• pci_ide_stream_free(9)
• pci_ide_stream_release(9)
• pci_ide_stream_register(9)
• pci_ide_stream_unregister(9)
• pci_ide_stream_to_regs(9)
• pci_ide_stream_setup(9)
• pci_ide_stream_teardown(9)
• pci_ide_stream_disable(9)
• pci_ide_set_nr_streams(9)

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kiss kiss bestie 🫶 this lil page comes from ./drivers/pci, dated October 2026 — pci_ide_stream_enable(9) signing off 💅✨