t3_io_slot_reset(9)

✨ t3_io_slot_reset(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual name, we're fancy here 💅 this one's about t3_io_slot_reset, and it's honestly kind of a short little icon. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

t3_io_slot_reset — the function that gets called after the pci bus has been reset. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pci_ers_result_t t3_io_slot_reset (struct pci_dev *pdev );

copy it exactly like that, no cap, don't be out here editing the signature 💀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• pdev — a pointer to the PCI device. yeah, just the one pointer. she's low maintenance like that 🙈

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does she actually do? she restarts the card from scratch, as if from a cold-boot. like, full main character reset energy — not a little nap, not a gentle reboot, we're talking cold-boot, brand new day, nothing remembered 🌈✨

literally the card gets to start over from zero and honestly? relatable 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file in question lives right here:

./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c

and these are the besties she runs with, all in section 9:

• link_report(9)
• t3_os_link_changed(9)
• t3_os_phymod_changed(9)
• link_start(9)
• setup_rss(9)
• setup_sge_qsets(9)
• t3_synchronize_rx(9)
• cxgb_up(9)
• t3_io_error_detected(9)
• t3_io_resume(9)

go read them, they're all serving 🍓

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ngl bestie, this one's short but she's still doing important work — treat the cold-boot reset with the respect it deserves 💜

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and that's the whole page!! source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio..., dated October 2026, and she's filed under t3_io_slot_reset(9) — slay, go reset a bus, ily 🧚‍♀️⭐💖