pm8001_scan_start(9)

✨ pm8001_scan_start(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a lil function from the kernel side of things and honestly? it's giving "just turn everything on" energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pm8001_scan_start — we should enable all HBA phys by sending the phy_start command to HBA.

like. that's the whole vibe. every single HBA phy gets enabled, and the way we do it is by sending the phy_start command on over to the HBA. periodt. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void pm8001_scan_start (struct Scsi_Host *shost );

returns nothing (void), takes one arg, moves on with its life. iconic honestly.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• shost — the scsi host data. that's it, that's the whole argument. she's the main character here 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the manpage just starts listing literally everyone in the group chat 😭 like a whole friend group of kernel functions. all from the 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_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_alloc_dev(9)
• pm8001_find_dev(9)
• pm8001_dev_found_notify(9)
• pm8001_dev_gone_notify(9)
• pm8001_I_T_nexus_reset(9)

go read those too if you wanna be thorough, iykyk 🫶

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lowkey a moment of appreciation for whoever wrote all these cross-references out. not one skipped. she ate. 💀✨

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and that's the page bestie!! 🌸 this lil gem lives over at ./drivers/scsi/pm8001, dated October 2026, and the whole thing is literally just pm8001_scan_start(9) doing her thing. mwah. 💜🎀🦋