qla2x00_lock_nvram_access(9)

💖 qla2x00_lock_nvram_access — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, the original page is extremely short and honestly that's kind of iconic of it. No long description, no novel — it does exactly one thing and dips. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

qla2x00_lock_nvram_access — and like, the dash after it? Yeah, there's literally nothing after the dash in the original. Empty. Blank. A whole vibe. So that's what we're giving you: the name, and the name only. No cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void qla2x00_lock_nvram_access (struct qla_hw_data *ha );

that's the whole thing. isn't she neat 😌

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ha — the HA context 💖 that's genuinely all the original says about it, so that's all I'm gonna claim. Don't come for me about details that aren't on the page, bestie, I'm not out here inventing lore 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

so there are a lot of siblings in this family and we're listing every single one because nobody's getting left out of the group chat 👑

First off, the kernel file this all lives in:

• ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_sup.c

and then, in the order the original gives them:

• qla29xx_get_flt_layout(9)
• qla29xx_get_fdt_info(9)
• qla29xx_get_flash_region(9)
• set_segment_bits(9)
• set_chunk_bits(9)
• qla29xx_write_optrom_data(9)
• qla29xx_read_optrom_data(9)
• qla29xx_mpi_optrom_data(9)
• qla2x00_unlock_nvram_access(9)
• qla2x00_nv_write(9)
• qla2x00_nvram_request(9)
• qla2x00_get_nvram_word(9)
• qla2x00_nv_deselect(9)
• qla2x00_write_nvram_word(9)
• qla2x00_clear_nvram_protection(9)
• qla2x00_flash_enable(9)
• qla2x00_flash_disable(9)
• qla2x00_read_flash_byte(9)
• qla2x00_write_flash_byte(9)
• qla2x00_poll_flash(9)
• qla2x00_program_flash_address(9)
• qla2x00_erase_flash(9)
• qla2x00_erase_flash_sector(9)
• qla2x00_get_flash_manufacturer(9)
• qla2x00_get_fcode_version(9)

like, twenty-five whole references, absolutely main character energy from the SEE ALSO section honestly 🫶✨

also don't forget the natural counterpart to this one is qla2x00_unlock_nvram_access(9) — it's literally in the list above. Locking and unlocking are a matching set, iykyk 🔥

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kiss kiss, that's the page!! 💜 this lil beauty ships out of ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx and the page is dated October 2026 — the manual name for the whole thing is qla2x00_lock_nvram_access(9), so if you're citing it, that's the one. slay, go read the source, mwah 🎀🦋