scsi_prep_async_scan(9)

💅 scsi_prep_async_scan(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_prep_async_scan — prepare for an async scan 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct async_scan_data * scsi_prep_async_scan (struct Scsi_Host *shost
);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• shost — the host which will be scanned, aka the main character here 👑✨

💫 RETURN 💫

It returns a cookie to be passed to scsi_finish_async_scan — like, yes, a literal return-cookie situation, not a snack 🍪😭

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Tells the midlayer that this host is going to do an asynchronous scan. It reserves the host’s position in the scanning list and ensures that other asynchronous scans started after this one won’t affect the ordering of the discovered devices. periodt. 💅🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c — and here’s the whole bestie squad of related refs, no cap:

• scsi_complete_async_scans(9)
• scsi_unlock_floptical(9)
• scsi_alloc_sdev(9)
• scsi_target_reap_ref_release(9)
• scsi_alloc_target(9)
• scsi_target_reap(9)
• scsi_sanitize_inquiry_string(9)
• scsi_probe_lun(9)
• scsi_add_lun(9)
• scsi_inq_str(9)
• scsi_probe_and_add_lun(9)
• scsi_sequential_lun_scan(9)
• scsi_report_lun_scan(9)
• scsi_add_device(9)
• scsi_scan_target(9)
• scsi_finish_async_scan(9)
• scsi_scan_host(9)
• scsi_get_pseudo_sdev(9)

made with 💖 from ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, for scsi_prep_async_scan(9) — slay, bye! 🫶✨