qla2x00_find_new_loop_id(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 qla2x00_find_new_loop_id(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so picture this: it's a Kernel API Manual kind of day, you're deep in the qla2xxx driver, and you need a fresh loop ID. That's literally this function. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

qla2x00_find_new_loop_id — bestie, it scans through our port list and finds a new usable loop ID. That's the whole vibe. No cap. 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int qla2x00_find_new_loop_id (scsi_qla_host_t *vha , fc_port_t *dev );

Look at that signature. Iconic. It returns an int, it takes two pointers, and it's giving main character energy 💅

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • vha — the adapter state pointer. This is your adapter's whole little world, its state, its hopes and dreams 🫶
  • dev — the port structure pointer. The port in question. The one we're looking at. Hiiii 👋

✨ RETURN ✨

It hands you back a qla2x00 local function return status code. That's the status code — local to qla2x00 — and it tells you how the whole thing went. Periodt. 💀

🌈 CONTEXT 🌈

Kernel context. Like, you're in the kernel. Be normal about it. (We're not normal about it. We're obsessed. 😭)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

First up, the kernel file itself lives at ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c — that's the home base, the mothership 🧚

And then the whole squad, the entire friend group, all the siblings you should also go read:

Like, go read all of them. Every single one. It's giving syllabus. It's giving required reading 📚💜

💡 quick vibe check: the only thing this page promises is that it scans our port list for a new usable loop ID and hands back a qla2x00 local function return status code. Don't go inventing behaviours, bestie — the manpage said what it said 🙈

okay that's the whole page, and now the cute little sign-off 💌 this beauty lives in ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx, it's dated October 2026, and the header up top is qla2x00_find_new_loop_id(9) from the Kernel API Manual. Slay, go find those loop IDs, ily, bye 🍓🌸💅

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