slim_do_transfer(9)

🦋 slim_do_transfer(9) 🦋

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about processing a SLIMbus-messaging transaction. bestie, we're in kernel-land now 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

slim_do_transfer — Process a SLIMbus-messaging transaction.

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

int slim_do_transfer (struct slim_controller *ctrl , struct slim_msg_txn *txn );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ctrl — Controller handle. this is your controller bestie, your main character handle for the operation 💫
• txn — Transaction to be sent over SLIMbus. the actual message package getting sent out into the SLIMbus-verse 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Called by controller to transmit messaging transactions not dealing with Interface/Value elements. (e.g. transmitting a message to assign logical address to a slave device

so yeah, this is the controller's go-to for messaging transactions that are not about Interface/Value elements — for example, sending a message to assign a logical address to a slave device. that's the vibe. and yes, that parenthesis is living its unclosed best life in the source, no cap 😭

💀 RETURN 💀

• -ETIMEDOUT — If transmission of this message timed out (e.g. due to bus lines not being clocked or driven by controller)

ok so if you see -ETIMEDOUT, the message transmission timed out — for example because the bus lines weren't being clocked or driven by the controller. not slay, but at least you know 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/slimbus/messaging.c is where this lives, bestie. also go peek at:

• slim_msg_response(9)
• slim_alloc_txn_tid(9)
• slim_free_txn_tid(9)
• slim_xfer_msg(9)
• slim_read(9)
• slim_readb(9)
• slim_write(9)
• slim_writeb(9)

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that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from ./drivers/slimbus, dated October 2026. mwah, periodt 💅✨