qmi_add_server(9)

💅 qmi_add_server — the kernel API manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to the qmi_add_server page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the one where you tell the name service "hey, i exist, come find me" 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qmi_add_server — register a service with the name service 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int qmi_add_server (struct qmi_handle *qmi , unsigned int service ,
       unsigned int version , unsigned int instance );

like, four things go in, an int comes out. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• qmi — the qmi handle 💫 your main character struct, no cap
• service — type of the service 👑
• version — version of the service ⭐
• instance — instance of the service 🍓

three unsigned ints in a row, so keep track of which is which, i'm begging 😭

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea 🍵 you're registering a new service with the name service. that's it, that's the function.

and the way that this works is lowkey iconic: it lets clients find the client associated with qmi, and then start sending messages to it 🔥 like you just put your name on the board and now everybody knows where to slide into your DMs 💅

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 on success — slay, it worked 🎉
• negative errno on failure — not slay, but at least it tells you why 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

bestie, the link list is LONG and it ate, fr fr 💀 all the friends of this page are here:

• Kernel file ./drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c 👀
• qmi_recv_new_server(9)
• qmi_recv_del_server(9)
• qmi_recv_bye(9)
• qmi_recv_del_client(9)
• qmi_add_lookup(9)
• qmi_txn_init(9)
• qmi_txn_wait(9)
• qmi_txn_cancel(9)
• qmi_invoke_handler(9)
• qmi_handle_net_reset(9)
• qmi_handle_init(9)
• qmi_handle_release(9)
• qmi_send_message(9)
• qmi_send_request(9)
• qmi_send_response(9)
• qmi_send_indication(9)

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lowkey important: this page lives under ./drivers/soc/qcom and it's dated October 2026 📅 so yeah, it's from the future, we don't question it 🧚

and that's the page!! go register ur service, u got this 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶 — Kernel API Manual, ./drivers/soc/qcom, October 2026 edition, mwah 😘