qla_start_scsi_type6(9)

💅 qla_start_scsi_type6 — a kernel API manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's called qla_start_scsi_type6. The way this function is literally out here sending SCSI commands to the ISP?? main character energy fr fr 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

qla_start_scsi_type6 — send a SCSI command to the ISP 💌

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int qla_start_scsi_type6 (srb_t *sp );

like, that's the whole signature, no notes, she's concise 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• sp — the command you're sending to the ISP. that's it, that's the whole argument, she's a one-argument girlie 🫶

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay so here's the vibe check: it returns non-zero if a failure occurred, else zero. so if you get a zero back you're slaying, and if you get non-zero... not slaying, bestie, something went wrong 😭 keep that in mind iykyk

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• 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)
• qla2xxx_dif_start_scsi_mq(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)

yeah that's a lot of friends, she's got a whole group chat going 💀 but like, go read them, they're all connected, no cap 🌈

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okay and finally, the little sign-off at the bottom: this page comes from ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx and it's dated October 2026 🎀 so when you're citing it, that's the source and the date, periodt 👑

bye bestie, go send some SCSI commands 💖✨