pci_read_vpd(9)

💖 pci_read_vpd(9) 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pci_read_vpd — Read one entry from Vital Product Data 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t pci_read_vpd (struct pci_dev *dev , loff_t pos , size_t count ,
       void *buf );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the PCI device struct 🫶
• pos — offset in VPD space ✨
• count — number of bytes to read 🔢
• buf — pointer to where to store the result 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/pci/vpd.c, plus pci_vpd_size(9) and pci_write_vpd(9) 👀💖

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