sym2_io_error_detected(9)

💅 sym2_io_error_detected ✨

okay so bestie, you're reading the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and this page is literally all about sym2_io_error_detected — the function that gets called when a PCI error is detected. yes, that kind of error. the "something went wrong at the hardware level" kind. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sym2_io_error_detected — called when PCI error is detected 💀

like, that's the whole job. it gets pinged the moment the system notices a PCI error, and then it's main character time.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pci_ers_result_t sym2_io_error_detected (struct pci_dev *pdev ,
       pci_channel_state_t state );

look at her go 🎀 it takes two things and returns a pci_ers_result_t, which is the function's way of reporting back what happened. iconic.

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• pdev — pointer to PCI device 👑 like, the actual device we're talking about here. a pointer to it. pointing at it. very demure.
• state — current state of the PCI slot 🌈 that's the vibe check on the slot itself, handed to you as a pci_channel_state_t.

ngl, both of these are handed to you by the caller — you're not out here hunting them down yourself. 💅

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c — that's where the source lives, bestie 🍓
• sym2_io_slot_dump(9)
• sym2_reset_workarounds(9)
• sym2_io_slot_reset(9)
• sym2_io_resume(9)

fr fr go read those next, they're all part of the same little friend group 💜

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and that's the page!! 🌟 this one's from ./drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2, dated October 2026, and it's filed under sym2_io_error_detected(9) — mwah, caught you up, bye bestie 🎀💖