recovery_prolog(9)

💅 recovery_prolog — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, we're looking at recovery_prolog(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's giving "tiny function, big responsibilities" 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

recovery_prolog — literally just executes the prolog operations of a recovery process 💫 no cap, that's the whole gig.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int recovery_prolog (struct qed_dev *cdev );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• cdev — the Qed dev pointer 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument list, she's low maintenance.

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🎀 RETURN 🎀

Returns 0 on success, and an error otherwise 😭 so like… check your return value, bestie, please. 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the file to go look at: kernel file ./include/linux/qed/qed_if.h 📁✨

and then the whole friend group 🫶 — every single one of these icons:

• selftest_interrupt(9)
• selftest_memory(9)
• selftest_register(9)
• selftest_clock(9)
• selftest_nvram(9)
• can_link_change(9)
• set_link(9)
• get_link(9)
• drain(9)
• update_msglvl(9)
• nvm_flash(9)
• nvm_get_image(9)
• set_coalesce(9)
• set_led(9)
• attn_clr_enable(9)
• db_recovery_add(9)
• db_recovery_del(9)
• recovery_process(9)
• update_drv_state(9)
• update_mac(9)
• update_mtu(9)
• update_wol(9)
• read_module_eeprom(9)
• get_affin_hwfn_idx(9)
• read_nvm_cfg(9)
• read_nvm_cfg_len(9)
• set_grc_config(9)
• qed_sb_ack(9)

like, that's a whole group chat worth of cross-references and we're here for it 💀💜

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ngl the entire page is basically "call this, it does the prolog stuff, you get 0 or you get an error" — short and iconic, periodt. 💅

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okay that's the whole thing, bestie, go forth and recover 🧚‍♀️✨ this little number lives in ./include/linux/qed and it's dated October 2026 — mwah, love that for us 🌈🌸💖