STRUCT UBI_BLKCREATE_REQ(9)

🎀 struct ubi_blkcreate_req(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for struct ubi_blkcreate_req — yes it's a whole manual page and yes it's basically one line of struct, but she's iconic and she's part of the UBI family so we're gonna give her the respect she deserves 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

struct ubi_blkcreate_req — a data structure used in block creation requests.

that's it. that's the whole personality. she's a data structure, she shows up when you're doing block creation requests, and she does her job quietly and flawlessly 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct ubi_blkcreate_req {
    __s8 padding[128];
 };

look at her. a whole 128 bytes of __s8 padding. main character energy but make it reserved ✨

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🦋 Members 🦋

• padding — reserved for future, not used, has to be zeroed 🙈

fr fr, zero it out. it says "has to be zeroed" and that's not a suggestion, bestie — that's the whole assignment. it's reserved for future stuff, it is not used right now, so don't get creative with it 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the Kernel file ./include/uapi/mtd/ubi-user.h — that's the mothership, the source of truth, the og file 🧚

and the whole squad of sibling structs, all documented, all in the family group chat:

• struct ubi_attach_req(9)
• struct ubi_mkvol_req(9)
• struct ubi_rsvol_req(9)
• struct ubi_rnvol_req(9)
• struct ubi_ecinfo_req(9)
• struct ubi_leb_change_req(9)
• struct ubi_map_req(9)
• struct ubi_set_vol_prop_req(9)

the way there's an entire UBI request-struct cinematic universe and they all got manual pages… we love to see it 👑

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anyway that's the page!! she lives under ./include/uapi/mtd, and this little writeup is dated October 2026 — so if you're reading this from the future, hiii, hope your padding is still zeroed 💖

later bestie, go zero your padding 🎀