scsi_try_target_reset(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ scsi_try_target_reset 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for scsi_try_target_reset(9) — yes that's the whole title, we're not being shy about it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_try_target_reset — literally just politely asking the host to go ahead and perform a target reset 🫶

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

enum scsi_disposition scsi_try_target_reset (struct scsi_cmnd *scmd );

she takes one argument and hands you back an enum scsi_disposition, no cap ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • scmd — the SCSI cmd you're using to send a target reset. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

👑 NOTES 👑

bestie. listen. there is no timeout for this operation. like, none. zero. nada 😭

so if this operation is unreliable for a given host, then the host itself needs to put a timer on it, and set the host back to a consistent state prior to returning. that's the deal — the host's problem, the host's timer, the host's cleanup. no cap, fr fr 🙈

💀 do not assume the kernel is gonna save you with a timeout here, because it is not gonna.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c plus this whole iconic little friend group:

like that's the entire error-handling squad and you will be reading all of them, mwah 💖

and that's the page!! sourced from ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, living under the Kernel API Manual umbrella — luv u, go reset that target responsibly 🧚‍♀️✨

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