scsi_scan_host(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 scsi_scan_host(9) 💖

okay so first things first, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the actual kernel manual, we're fancy now ✨), and it's all about one iconic little function: scsi_scan_host. She scans. She hosts. She slays. Let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_scan_host — scan the given adapter 🦋

like, literally, that's the whole job. she takes an adapter and she scans it. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void scsi_scan_host (struct Scsi_Host *shost );

that's it. that's the whole call. no return value, she just does it 💅 (void, bestie — she returns nothing and she's at peace with that).

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • shost — the adapter to scan. that's the struct Scsi_Host * up there. it's the thing you're pointing her at. give her the adapter, she handles the rest 📡

💜 NOTES 💜

Should be called after scsi_add_host.

and by "should" I mean please actually do this, bestie 😭 — the adapter has to be added first before you go scanning it, that's just the order of operations. it's giving "read the room" energy.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Everything else in the SCSI cinematic universe 🍿 — the kernel file is ./drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c, and here's the whole friend group:

that's eighteen (18!!) whole siblings. one big happy SCSI family, iykyk 👑

💀 real talk though: the path ./drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c is where this all lives, so if you're lost, that's your main character location.

and that's the tea 🍓 this page lives in ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it's filed under scsi_scan_host(9) — stay scanned, stay slay, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️

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