qla2x00_start_scsi(9)

💫 qla2x00_start_scsi(9) 💫

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a little function from the qla2xxx driver, and yes it's giving lowkey legendary ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qla2x00_start_scsi — send a SCSI command to the ISP 🎀 That's the whole vibe. You hand it a command, it ships it off to the ISP. periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int qla2x00_start_scsi (srb_t *sp );

Literally the whole signature. Short, sweet, iconic 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sp — the command you're sending to the ISP. that's it. that's the argument. main character energy fr fr 🫶

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

So here's the tea: it returns non-zero if a failure occurred, and zero otherwise. no cap, that's the whole behavior contract 😭 Keep an eye on that return value, bestie — nonzero means something went sideways 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c — that's where the magic lives 👑

and the whole friend group of related functions, all here so you can go down the rabbit hole:

• 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_iocbs(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 squad 🧚 go read them, iykyk 💜

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💖 cute lil sign-off 💖 — this whole page lives under ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx and it's dated October 2026, page name qla2x00_start_scsi(9). slay, go ship some SCSI commands 🦋🔥