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📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 sci_remote_node_table_allocate_remote_node — but make it make sense

okay bestie so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the (9) one, kernel-docs girlies rise) and it's all about sci_remote_node_table_allocate_remote_node. that's the whole NAME section, no cap — that's it, that's the name. iconic of it honestly 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u16 sci_remote_node_table_allocate_remote_node (struct
sci_remote_node_table *remote_node_table , u32 remote_node_count );

look at her. u16 going in, struct sci_remote_node_table * in the middle, u32 at the end. she's serving signature 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • remote_node_table — this is the remote node table, and it's the one doing the heavy lifting: the remote node allocation is gonna take place from it. main character energy fr 🫶
  • remote_node_count — this is ther remote node count (not me, that's literally how the page spells it, iykyk 😭). it's one of SCU_SSP_REMOTE_NODE_COUNT(1) or SCU_STP_REMOTE_NODE_COUNT(3).

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so this method will allocate a remote node that mataches (again — the page's spelling, not mine, we stan a typo 💀) the remote node count that the caller specified. valid values for remote node count are SCU_SSP_REMOTE_NODE_COUNT(1) or SCU_STP_REMOTE_NODE_COUNT(3). periodt.

and then there's u16 — that's the return type, and what comes back is the remote node index, or an invalid remote node context. so like, vibe check your return value, bestie, because one of those two outcomes is not the slay one 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/isci/remote_node_table.c — go read the source, it's giving lore 📖

the whole friend group, in order:

reminder bestie: sci_remote_node_table_allocate_remote_node can hand you back an invalid remote node context instead of a real index, so please actually check what you got before you build your whole personality on it 💖

and that's the page!! 🧚 source lives in ./drivers/scsi/isci, this is the October 2026 edition of the manual, and honestly? she ate. go allocate responsibly, ily, bye 👑✨

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