scsi_dev_info_list_add_str(9)

✨ scsi_dev_info_list_add_str(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the parser that takes your messy little dev_list string and files everything nicely into the scsi_dev_info_list 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

scsi_dev_info_list_add_str — parse dev_list and add to the scsi_dev_info_list.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int scsi_dev_info_list_add_str (char *dev_list );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev_list — the string of device flags you wanna add, no cap

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🫖: it parses dev_list and adds entries to the scsi_dev_info_list. The dev_list is shaped like this:

"vendor:product:flag,vendor:product:flag"

That's the format, periodt. And heads up — dev_list gets modified via strsep, so don't come crying to me if your string looks different after 👀.

You can call it for command line addition, for proc, or mabye a sysfs interface. iykyk 💅

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 if OK
• -error on failure 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c, plus all these iconic siblings:

• scsi_dev_info_list_add(9)
• scsi_dev_info_list_add_keyed(9)
• scsi_dev_info_list_find(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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aaaand that's the whole page bestie 🫶 it's from the ./drivers/scsi corner of the kernel, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — go slay your device flags 💜✨