qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq(9)

💖 qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq(9) 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one is a qla2xxx girlie through and through ✨ no cap, it's a kernel-manpage moment and we're gonna slay it together 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq — send a SCSI command to the ISP</p> 💅 literally that's the whole vibe

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq (srb_t *sp );

like yes, that's the signature, don't @ me, copy it exactly 😌

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• sp — the command to send to the ISP 🦋 that's it, that's the argument, she's a srb_t * and she's the main character

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so here's the tea 🍓: this function returns non-zero if a failure occurred, else zero. that's the whole behaviour, bestie — non-zero = bad news 😭, zero = we ate 🔥. iykyk.

ngl this is a short one, but the short ones still deserve their moment, periodt 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where she lists everyone she knows, and we are not leaving a single one out, fr fr 🧚‍♀️💜:

• 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_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)
• 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, the whole friend group showed up 💀💖

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 mwah 💋 — this iconic little writeup lives in ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx and it's stamped October 2026, so go forth and ship those SCSI commands 🌈👑