pm8001_alloc_dev(9)

✨ pm8001_alloc_dev(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for pm8001_alloc_dev(9) — yes the title is literally the same as the function, that's just how manpages do, iconic behaviour ngl 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pm8001_alloc_dev — find a empty pm8001_device ✨

like. it goes and finds you an empty one. that's the whole vibe check.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct pm8001_device * pm8001_alloc_dev (struct pm8001_hba_info
*pm8001_ha );

no cap, that's it. one function, one argument, returns a struct pm8001_device *. short and slay 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• pm8001_ha — our hba card information 💖 like, the whole card's info gets passed in so it knows which hba we're talking about. it's giving "context, but make it a struct".

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay so this is the part where the manpage just. lists everybody. and honestly? the friend group is huge. here's the full squad, no one left out 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c

• pm8001_find_tag(9)
• pm8001_tag_free(9)
• pm8001_tag_alloc(9)
• pm8001_mem_alloc(9)
• pm8001_find_ha_by_dev(9)
• pm8001_phy_control(9)
• pm8001_scan_start(9)
• pm8001_task_prep_smp(9)
• pm8001_task_prep_ata(9)
• pm8001_task_prep_internal_abort(9)
• pm8001_task_prep_ssp_tm(9)
• pm8001_task_prep_ssp(9)
• pm8001_queue_command(9)
• pm8001_ccb_task_free(9)
• pm8001_find_dev(9)
• pm8001_dev_found_notify(9)
• pm8001_dev_gone_notify(9)
• pm8001_I_T_nexus_reset(9)

like I said. the whole group chat. all of them. iykyk 🌈

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lowkey a reminder bestie: every one of those names is written exactly how the manpage wrote it — don't go "fixing" the capitals in pm8001_I_T_nexus_reset, that's just her name 💀

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and that's the page!! 🎀 written under ./drivers/scsi/pm8001, dated October 2026, and published as pm8001_alloc_dev(9) — mwah, go find your empty device bestie, slay 💜✨