scsi_get_device_flags_keyed(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 scsi_get_device_flags_keyed(9) 💖

ok so bestie, you're reading the scsi_get_device_flags_keyed(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, the kernel one, we're literally in the big leagues now ✨ grab a strawberry drink and let's go 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_get_device_flags_keyed — get device specific flags from the dynamic device list 👑

like, you want the flags that are specific to a device? this is the function that fishes them out of the dynamic device list for you. no cap 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

blist_flags_t scsi_get_device_flags_keyed (struct scsi_device *sdev ,
const unsigned char *vendor , const unsigned char *model , enum
scsi_devinfo_key key );

the vibe check: it hands you back a blist_flags_t, and it wants a struct scsi_device *sdev, a couple of const unsigned char * strings (vendor and model), and an enum scsi_devinfo_key key to tell it which list to rummage through 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • sdev — the scsi_device you want flags for. your main character device, basically 💫
  • vendor — vendor name. who made it 🏷️
  • model — model name. which one is it 🌈
  • key — the list to look up. tells the function which scsi_dev_info_list to go digging in 🔑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's what actually happens 👇

it searches the scsi_dev_info_list specified by key for an entry matching vendor and model. if it finds one, it returns the matching flags value. slay 💅

but if it doesn't find one? it returns the host or global default settings instead — no big dramatic meltdown, just the defaults, and honestly that's a healthy boundary 🧚

and the little detail iykyk: this is called during scan time 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c — that's where the real action lives, go read it bestie 📖

💀 reminder: every single one of these is a real reference from the page — don't skip 'em, they're the whole friend group 🫶

and that's the page, periodt 🎀 this little beauty lives over in ./drivers/scsi, it's dated October 2026, and it answers to scsi_get_device_flags_keyed(9) — mwah, go get those flags bestie 💖✨🦋

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