qla2x00_setup_chip(9)

✨ qla2x00_setup_chip(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for qla2x00_setup_chip 💅 this one's short but she's iconic — it's the little function that gets your RISC firmware up and running 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qla2x00_setup_chip — load and start RISC firmware, periodt ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int qla2x00_setup_chip (scsi_qla_host_t *vha );

like, that's the whole call, no cap 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vha — the HA context 👑 literally the host adapter's whole vibe, you hand her over and she gets to work

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Returns 0 on success 😌 that's it, that's the whole description, she's lowkey mysterious like that 🙈

ngl bestie, the manpage does not tell us what a non-zero return means — so don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 💀

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group, fr fr 🫶:

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c — that's where she lives 🏠
• qla2x00_find_new_loop_id(9)
• qla26xx_marker(9)
• qla2100_pci_config(9)
• qla2300_pci_config(9)
• qla24xx_pci_config(9)
• qla25xx_pci_config(9)
• qla2x00_isp_firmware(9)
• qla2x00_reset_chip(9)
• qla81xx_reset_mpi(9)
• qla24xx_reset_risc(9)
• qla24xx_reset_chip(9)
• qla2x00_chip_diag(9)
• qla24xx_chip_diag(9)
• qla24xx_detect_sfp(9)
• qla2x00_init_response_q_entries(9)
• qla2x00_update_fw_options(9)
• qla2x00_init_rings(9)
• qla2x00_fw_ready(9)
• qla2x00_alloc_fcport(9)

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mwah 💋 that's a wrap! this gem dropped from ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx back in October 2026 — go read the source, bestie, it ate 🔥👑