thc_dma_allocate(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is thc_dma_allocate(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — and it does exactly one iconic thing: it allocates DMA buffers for all DMA engines. that's the whole assignment. 💅✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int thc_dma_allocate (struct thc_device *dev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — The pointer of THC private device context. like, you hand it the device context and it knows what's up 🫶

💖 RETURN 💖

• 0 — success, slay ✨
• other error codes — returned on failed 😭 so yes, 0 on success, other error codes on failed. periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/hid/intel-thc-hid/intel-thc/intel-thc-dma.c — that's the spot, iykyk 👀
• thc_dma_set_max_packet_sizes(9)
• thc_dma_release(9)
• thc_dma_configure(9)
• thc_dma_unconfigure(9)
• thc_rxdma_reset(9)
• thc_rxdma_read(9)
• thc_swdma_read(9)
• thc_dma_write(9)

made with 🍓 by the Kernel API Manual girlies — source/version is ./drivers/hid/intel-thc-hid/in..., dated October 2026 — bye bestie 👑🌈💜