prepare_api_cmd(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 prepare_api_cmd(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the hinic girlies' corner of the kernel tree. this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's called prepare_api_cmd — yes, the title is the function name, we're keeping it cute and simple ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

prepare_api_cmd — literally just here to prepare API CMD command. that's the whole job. she prepares. she does not execute, she does not clean up, she gets the command ready and hands it off. main character energy but make it a helper function 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void prepare_api_cmd (struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *chain , enum
hinic_node_id dest , void *cmd , u16 cmd_size );

returns void, so no sneaky return value to check — she's a fire-and-forget kind of icon 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • chain — the chain for the command. this is the struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *, the whole lil command pipeline she's working inside. everything happens in here, no cap.
  • dest — the destination node on the card that will receive the command. type is enum hinic_node_id, so it's one of the card's known node IDs, not just any random number you vibe your way into 🙈
  • cmd — the command data itself. a void *, so it's raw bytes as far as this signature is concerned.
  • cmd_size — the command size, as a u16. keep it honest, bestie, this is how much of cmd actually matters 💀
lowkey the important thing here: dest is an enum hinic_node_id, and cmd_size is a u16. those aren't optional details, they're the whole type-check vibe check ⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, fr fr — and the source file she actually lives in:

that's the full roster, iykyk 🧚 all twenty-eight of them, no skips, we don't do skips here 💖

aaand that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this lil cutie comes to you straight from ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... (that's the truncated path in the footer, don't come for me, that's what the manpage says 🙈) and the date on the tin is October 2026 — go forth and prepare those API CMDs, you absolute legend 👑💜🍓

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