pldm_finalize_update(9)

💅 pldm_finalize_update — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the last little step of the device flash update saga. no cap, it's the finale episode. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

pldm_finalize_update — bestie, this is the one that finalizes the device flash update. like, it closes the curtain. periodt. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int pldm_finalize_update (struct pldmfw_priv *data );

that's the whole vibe check right there 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• data — a pointer to private data 🔒 (yes, the private data, mind your business, it's private 🙈)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea: you call this and it tells the device driver to go ahead and perform any remaining logic to complete the device update. that's it. that's the whole main character moment. 🫶

like, all the heavy lifting is done, this is just the "hey bestie, wrap it up" signal 🔥

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• zero on success 💚 — slay, it worked
• a PLFM_FWU error indicating the reason for failure 💀 — not the vibe, but at least it tells you why

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, fr fr — Kernel file ./lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c plus:

• pldm_check_fw_space(9)
• pldm_move_fw_offset(9)
• pldm_parse_header(9)
• pldm_check_desc_tlv_len(9)
• pldm_parse_desc_tlvs(9)
• pldm_parse_one_record(9)
• pldm_parse_records(9)
• pldm_parse_components(9)
• pldm_verify_header_crc(9)
• pldmfw_free_priv(9)
• pldm_parse_image(9)
• pldmfw_op_pci_match_record(9)
• pldm_find_matching_record(9)
• pldm_send_package_data(9)
• pldm_send_component_tables(9)
• pldm_flash_components(9)
• pldmfw_flash_image(9)

iykyk 👑

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ngl this page is short but she ate 💅

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sign-off time 🧚 this icon lives in ./lib/pldmfw, dated October 2026, and the manual page is literally called pldm_finalize_update(9) — mwah, go finish that flash update bestie 💜🍓