qla2x00_start_iocbs(9)

💅 qla2x00_start_iocbs — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so picture this: it's a kernel API manual page, section 9, and the star of the show is qla2x00_start_iocbs(9). That's our girl. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

qla2x00_start_iocbs — literally executes the IOCB command. That's the whole job. She runs it. Periodt. 🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void qla2x00_start_iocbs (struct scsi_qla_host *vha , struct req_que
*req );

no cap, that's the whole signature — void return, two args, done. slay ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• vha — the HA context, aka the home base she's working out of 🏠
• req — the request queue, the lil lineup of stuff waiting to go 🧚

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie, she does not work alone. Here's the whole friend group, and yes they all came as (9) entries because that's the vibe:

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c
• qla2x00_get_cmd_direction(9)
• qla2x00_calc_iocbs_32(9)
• qla2x00_calc_iocbs_64(9)
• qla2x00_prep_cont_type0_iocb(9)
• qla2x00_prep_cont_type1_iocb(9)
• qla2x00_build_scsi_iocbs_64(9)
• qla2x00_start_scsi(9)
• __qla2x00_marker(9)
• qla24xx_build_scsi_iocbs(9)
• qla24xx_build_scsi_crc_2_iocbs(9)
• qla24xx_start_scsi(9)
• qla24xx_dif_start_scsi(9)
• qla2xxx_start_scsi_mq(9)
• qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq(9)
• qla_start_scsi_type6(9)
• qla2900_prep_cont_type1_iocb(9)
• qla29xx_build_scsi_type_6_iocbs(9)
• qla29xx_build_scsi_iocbs(9)
• qla29xx_build_scsi_crc_2_iocbs(9)
• qla29xx_copy_dif_iocb_data(9)

like, that's a whole group chat right there 😭💜 go read them too, iykyk.

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tiny heads-up bestie: the source line on this one lives under ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx — that's where you'd go looking if you wanna see her in the wild 🫶

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and that's the page!! brought to you by the ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx directory, dated October 2026, filed under qla2x00_start_iocbs(9). mwah 💋 go execute some IOCB commands responsibly ✨💖