pds_client_register(9)

💖 pds_client_register(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is pds_client_register, and it's literally the function that links your client to the firmware 🫶 that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

pds_client_register — Link the client to the firmware 🔗

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int pds_client_register (struct pdsc *pf , char *devname );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pf — ptr to the PF driver's private data struct 💅 that's your struct pdsc *, she's the main character here
• devname — name that includes service into, e.g. pds_core.vDPA ⭐ (yes, that's exactly the example, i'm not making it up)

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

positive client ID (ci) on success 🔥, or negative for error 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pds_core/auxbus.c 📁
• pds_client_unregister(9) — the reverse slay, iykyk
• pds_client_adminq_cmd(9) — the adminq one, go read it

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bestie reminder: positive ci = she ate. negative = something's giving error, check it 🙈

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and that's the page fr fr 💜 — this one's from the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pds..., dated October 2026. mwah, go link some clients 💅✨🎀