pci_request_...ns_exclusive(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 pci_request_selected_regions_exclusive(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual name, we're fancy here — and today's main character is a little function called pci_request_selected_regions_exclusive. say it with me: selected regions, exclusively. she's the type-A friend who books the whole restaurant section so nobody else can sit there 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pci_request_selected_regions_exclusive — she requests regions exclusively. no sharing, no splitting the appetizer, no cap 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pci_request_selected_regions_exclusive (struct pci_dev *pdev , int
bars , const char *name );

like look at her. returning an int, taking three args, living her truth ✨

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • pdev — the PCI device you're requesting regions from. your little guy. your blorbo 🫶
  • bars — a bit mask of BARs to request. it's a mask, bestie, not a count — keywords, we're doing bitwise math here 🔥
  • name — the name of the driver requesting the resources. put your name on the reservation, be proud 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, and a negative error code on failure. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 😭 zero means slay, negative means not slay.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

first up, the source file herself: Kernel file ./drivers/pci/pci.c — that's where she lives, go say hi 💜

and now the entire extended friend group, no one gets left out of the group chat (this is a long list, hydrate before reading, i'm so serious):

that's the whole list, i counted, don't come for me 😤 every single one stayed in the group chat.

and that's the page!! 🎀✨ this beauty ships from ./drivers/pci, dated October 2026, and she answers to the name pci_request_...ns_exclusive(9) at the bottom of the page too (the header and footer are literally twins, obsessed 💅). now go request your regions, exclusively, and slay 🦋💖

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