scsi_initialize_rq(9)

💅 scsi_initialize_rq(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

scsi_initialize_rq — initialize struct scsi_cmnd partially 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature, serving looks and all:

void scsi_initialize_rq (struct request *rq );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• rq — Request associated with the SCSI command to be initialized. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this, bestie: we’ve got a struct scsi_cmnd, and this function is doing the partial-initialization moment. It initializes the members of struct scsi_cmnd that must be initialized before request processing starts and that won’t be reinitialized if a SCSI command is requeued. That’s literally the whole job — important little setup era. 💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file: ./drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c — and here’s the whole crossover episode, all the linked manual pages, no cap:

• __scsi_queue_insert(9)
• scsi_queue_insert(9)
• scsi_failures_reset_retries(9)
• scsi_check_passthrough(9)
• scsi_execute_cmd(9)
• scsi_run_queue(9)
• scsi_result_to_blk_status(9)
• scsi_rq_err_bytes(9)
• scsi_io_completion(9)
• scsi_alloc_sgtables(9)
• scsi_alloc_request(9)
• scsi_dispatch_cmd(9)
• scsi_get_internal_cmd(9)
• scsi_put_internal_cmd(9)
• scsi_device_from_queue(9)
• scsi_block_requests(9)
• scsi_unblock_requests(9)
• scsi_mode_select(9)
• scsi_mode_sense(9)
• scsi_test_unit_ready(9)
• scsi_device_set_state(9)
• scsi_evt_emit(9)
• scsi_evt_thread(9)
• sdev_evt_send(9)
• sdev_evt_alloc(9)
• sdev_evt_send_simple(9)
• scsi_device_quiesce(9)
• scsi_device_resume(9)
• scsi_internal_device_block_nowait(9)
• scsi_device_block(9)
• scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(9)
• scsi_internal_device_unblock(9)
• scsi_block_targets(9)
• scsi_host_block(9)
• scsi_kmap_atomic_sg(9)
• scsi_kunmap_atomic_sg(9)
• scsi_vpd_lun_id(9)
• scsi_vpd_lun_serial(9)
• scsi_vpd_tpg_id(9)
• scsi_build_sense(9)

source/version check, bestie: this page lives under ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it’s the scsi_initialize_rq(9) girlie signing off. 🎀✨💖