position_lost_in_reset_show(9)

💖 position_lost_in_reset_show(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

hiii bestie 🫶 welcome to this page from the Kernel API Manual. It's giving very specific kernel tea, and we're gonna keep every detail, periodt ✨.

✨ NAME ✨

okay so position_lost_in_reset_show is the function where value 1 indicates that reads, writes, etc. are blocked because a device reset has occurred and no operation positioning the tape has been issued 💅. That's the whole vibe check — no cap 😌.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the signature, exactly as it is, bestie 🎀:

ssize_t position_lost_in_reset_show (struct device *dev , struct device_attribute *attr , char *buf );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — a struct device 🫶
• attr — the attribute structure 🌸
• buf — the buffer to return formatted data in 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you're doing a little kernel-file deep dive 🧚, it's all in Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/st.c — and the related-reference squad is literally:

• scsi_tape_release(9) 💅
• read_cnt_show(9) ✨
• read_byte_cnt_show(9) 💖
• read_ns_show(9) 🎀
• write_cnt_show(9) 🦋
• write_byte_cnt_show(9) 🌸
• write_ns_show(9) 🫶
• in_flight_show(9) 🔥
• io_ns_show(9) 😭
• other_cnt_show(9) 👑
• resid_cnt_show(9) ⭐

xoxo 💋 — source: ./drivers/scsi; date: October 2026; page: position_lost_in_reset_show(9). slay and goodbye 🎀