spi_nor_needs_sfdp(9)

✨ spi_nor_needs_sfdp(9) ✨

Okay bestie, so we're in the kernel API manual, specifically section 9, and today's main character is spi_nor_needs_sfdp 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

spi_nor_needs_sfdp — returns true if SFDP parsing is used for this flash.

Like, it literally just tells you whether SFDP parsing is the vibe for this particular flash. Simple queen behavior 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool spi_nor_needs_sfdp (const struct spi_nor *nor );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• nor — ngl bestie, the manpage says -- undescribed -- so that's literally all we get 😭 it's a const struct spi_nor * and we're just gonna have to live with that mystery.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

true if SFDP parsing is needed 🔥 (that's it, that's the whole return value — no cap)

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

Kernel file ./drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.h and honestly a whole friend group of structs, all of them iconic:

• struct spi_nor_erase_type(9)
• struct spi_nor_erase_command(9)
• struct spi_nor_erase_region(9)
• struct spi_nor_erase_map(9)
• struct spi_nor_locking_ops(9)
• struct spi_nor_otp_organization(9)
• struct spi_nor_otp_ops(9)
• struct spi_nor_otp(9)
• struct spi_nor_flash_parameter(9)
• struct spi_nor_fixups(9)
• struct spi_nor_id(9)
• struct flash_info(9)
• struct spi_nor_manufacturer(9)
• struct sfdp(9)

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💀 reminder that nor is literally listed as -- undescribed -- in the source, so if you came here for the lore, the lore is missing. iykyk 🙈

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🌸 that's the whole page bestie, hope it slayed 🌸

This cutie came out of ./drivers/mtd/spi-nor and the page is dated October 2026 — and the whole thing is filed under spi_nor_needs_sfdp(9) in the Kernel API Manual 📚✨ stay hydrated, go read your structs, mwah 🫶💜