sci_remote_...e_node_index(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 sci_remote_...e_node_index(9) ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual and it's about the single most underrated vibe in the whole SCSI/iSCI situation: giving a remote node index back. like yes bestie, we're freeing things today, we love a resource-returning queen 🎀

🦋 NAME

sci_remote_node_table_release_remote_node_index — no description line in the original, it literally just says the name and dips 💀 (iconic behaviour honestly)

✨ SYNOPSIS

void sci_remote_node_table_release_remote_node_index (struct sci_remote_node_table *remote_node_table , u32 remote_node_count , u16 remote_node_index );

she's a void function, she returns nothing, she doesn't need to explain herself 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS

  • remote_node_table — the struct sci_remote_node_table * that the remote node index is gonna get freed back into. think of it as the group chat this index is being returned to 🫶
  • remote_node_count — a u32, and it's the count of consecutive remote nodes getting freed. yes bestie, plural, we're freeing a little squad of them, not just one ✨
  • remote_node_index — a u16, and it's the actual remote node index that's being released. main character index, going home 😭

🔥 DESCRIPTION

okay so this method's whole job — her entire purpose, her moment — is to release the remote node index back into the remote node table free pool. that's it. that's the whole thing. she puts it back where it came from so somebody else can use it later, and honestly? we stan a recycling icon 🌈♻️

👑 SEE ALSO

the kernel file in question, in all her glory:

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/isci/remote_node_table.c

and the whole extended friend group (they all have man pages of their own, go say hi):

ngl the allocate_* ones are the ones who take the nodes and the release_* ones are the ones who give them back — like a whole ecosystem, fr fr 💀

🧚 sign-off

this lil page lives in ./drivers/scsi/isci and it's dated October 2026 — shoutout to the kernel docs girlies, keeping it documented and cute since forever. bye bestie, go free a node 🍓💖

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