qla_sts_cont_data_size(9)

💅 qla_sts_cont_data_size(9) — bestie's guide to the status-continuation payload 🎀

okay so real talk, this is from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-flavored one, iykyk) and it's genuinely one of the shorter reads in qla2xxx land, so grab your iced coffee and let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qla_sts_cont_data_size — literally just: the size of the status-continuation IOCB data payload. that's it. that's the whole vibe 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

u32 qla_sts_cont_data_size (struct qla_hw_data *ha );

notice how it hands you back a u32? yeah. no drama, no -ERRNO surprises, just a number. slay 🔥

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• ha — HBA pointer. that's the whole description bestie, the manpage is not gonna elaborate. it's your host bus adapter and it's the main character here 👑

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — sts_cont_entry_t and struct sts_cont_entry_ext are lowkey the same thing at the top. they share the same header and data offset; the only thing that's different is the size of that trailing data[], which is 60 bytes in one and 124 bytes in the other. not me being obsessed with a 64-byte difference 😭

so what does this function do? it returns that size for you, so callers don't have to sit there branching on the adapter type like some kind of clown 🤡 fr fr, it's a convenience wrapper and it ate. periodt.

no cap: the whole point is "don't branch on adapter type, just ask me." one call, one number, done 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h
• qla24xx_calc_iocbs(9)
• qla29xx_calc_iocbs(9)
• qla_req_entry_size(9)
• qla_rsp_entry_size(9)
• qla_logio_set_vp_index(9)
• qla_rsp_ring_advance(9)
• qla_req_ring_slot(9)
• qla_req_ring_advance(9)
• qla_rsp_ring_rewind_to(9)

like, go read the whole friend group, they're all in qla_inline.h together being iconic 💅

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that's the page!! brought to you by ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx, dated October 2026, and yes it's still qla_sts_cont_data_size(9) in the Kernel API Manual — bye bestie, go read your rings 💖🎀🦋