scsi_dev_info_list_add(9)

💅 scsi_dev_info_list_add — bestie's guide to the kernel API manual

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about scsi_dev_info_list_add, which is literally just "add one dev_info list entry." that's the whole vibe. one entry. in the list. slay. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_dev_info_list_add — add one dev_info list entry. that's it, that's the assignment 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int scsi_dev_info_list_add (int compatible , char *vendor , char *model
, char *strflags , blist_flags_t flags );

five args, one int coming back at you, no cap. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• compatible — if it's true, short strings get null terminated. if it's not, they get space padded instead. pick your fighter. ⭐
• vendor — the vendor string, bestie. who made it. 🏷️
• model — the model (product) string. which one is it. 🏷️
• strflags — an integer string. yes, an integer, but as a string. it's giving duality. 💅
• flags — if strflags is NULL, this flag value is what gets used instead. the backup plan. 🫶

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what it does is: create and add one dev_info entry for vendor, model, strflags or flag. one entry, created, added, done. 🌈

and if compatible is set, like, a few things happen at once — it adds to the tail of the list, it does not space pad, and it sets devinfo->compatible. yes all three, she's multitasking. 💅✨

also important, the scsi_static_device_list entries get added with compatible 1 and clfags NULL. that's literally how the page says it, clfags and all, so don't come for me. 😭

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💜 RETURN 💜

0 means OK. an -error means failure. so like... negative number = not the vibe. 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c — go read the source, iykyk. 📂

• scsi_dev_info_list_add_keyed(9)
• scsi_dev_info_list_find(9)
• scsi_dev_info_list_add_str(9)
• scsi_get_device_flags(9)
• scsi_get_device_flags_keyed(9)
• scsi_exit_devinfo(9)
• scsi_dev_info_add_list(9)
• scsi_dev_info_remove_list(9)
• scsi_init_devinfo(9)

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ngl this one's short and sweet — no deprecated nonsense, no undefined behaviour jumpscares, just a tidy little list-add. you're gonna do great, bestie. 🫶💖

okay and for the sign-off: this whole thing lives under ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it's from the Kernel API Manual — so go forth, add your entry, and stan the source file. mwah. 🎀🧚‍♀️⭐