spear_smi_probe_flash(9)

💅 spear_smi_probe_flash — like, the whole kernel API manual energy, bestie 🎀

okay so this is the page for spear_smi_probe_flash, straight out of the kernel API manual, and honestly? it's a little icon and you're gonna understand it in like thirty seconds fr fr 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

spear_smi_probe_flash — detects the NOR Flash chip</p> 🔍✨ that's the whole vibe. it goes looking, and it finds out if there's a chip there.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int spear_smi_probe_flash (struct spear_smi *dev , u32 bank );

that's it, that's the whole call signature, no cap 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — the structure of SMI information. literally the SMI info struct, that's what you're handing over 💜
• bank — the bank on which flash must be probed 👑 this is the memory bank ID you want it to go check.

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does this routine actually do? it checks whether there exists a flash chip on a given memory bank ID 🌈 that's the assignment. it's giving "hi bestie, is there a flash chip here or not" energy.

and then — the slay part — it returns the index of the probed flash in the flash devices structure ⭐ like it doesn't just say yes/no, it hands you back the index. iconic behavior honestly.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

bestie you are NOT ready for this friend group, it's huge and every single one of them is linked 💅

kernel file ./drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c plus struct spear_smi(9), struct spear_snor_flash(9), spear_smi_read_sr(9), spear_smi_wait_till_ready(9), spear_smi_int_handler(9), spear_smi_hw_init(9), get_flash_index(9), spear_smi_write_enable(9), spear_smi_erase_sector(9), spear_mtd_erase(9), spear_mtd_read(9), spear_mtd_write(9), spear_smi_probe(9), spear_smi_remove(9)

like. the whole squad. go read them all, iykyk 🔥

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ok bye ily, this page lives under ./drivers/mtd/devices, dated October 2026, and yes the section header and the footer both say spear_smi_probe_flash(9) because it's the main character 💀👑 go probe some flash, bestie, you got this 🍓💜