scsi_request_sense(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 scsi_request_sense — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to scsi_request_sense(9), a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's giving "small but mighty" 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

scsi_request_sense — literally just requesting sense data from a particular target. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum scsi_disposition scsi_request_sense (struct scsi_cmnd *scmd );

one function, one argument, one return type — enum scsi_disposition — and it ate, no notes. 👑

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • scmd — the SCSI cmd you're passing in for request sense. that's it, that's the whole parameter list, she's lowkey minimal and we respect it 💖

🔥 NOTES 🔥

okay listen up because this part matters, fr fr. some hosts automatically obtain this information — iconic of them, truly main character energy — and others require that we obtain it on our own. so it's a whole "depends on your host" situation, iykyk. 🙈

and here's the big one, the thing you cannot miss: this function will *not* return until the command either times out, or it completes. like, she is not leaving the group chat until the conversation is done. no cap. if you were hoping for a cute little non-blocking peek, that is not this. 💀

bestie pls plan around that blocking behaviour — the function hangs out until timeout or completion, and there is no third option listed here. ⭐

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

all the siblings, in their exact order because we do not shuffle the family tree 🌈

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c plus:

and that's the page!! 🎀 this one lives in ./drivers/scsi, it's the October 2026 era release of scsi_request_sense(9), and honestly? she's short, she's blocking, she's iconic. go get that sense data bestie, slay 💅💜

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