ubi_eba_init(9)

✨ ubi_eba_init(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this is a kernel API manual page, and we're about to get into the EBA sub-system initialization. no cap, it's giving lowkey important. 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

ubi_eba_init — initialize the EBA sub-system using attaching information. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ubi_eba_init(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_attach_info *ai);

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ubi — UBI device description object. like, the whole vibe of the device in one struct. main character energy.
• ai — attaching information. the tea on how we're attaching, iykyk.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This function returns zero in case of success and a negative error code in case of failure. that's it, that's the whole thing. not me expecting more lore 😭 but honestly? iconic. straightforward. we love a function that knows what it is. 🫶

fr fr, if you get zero back you're slaying. negative error code? that's a vibe check failure, bestie. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is LONG, so buckle up. these are all the kernel friends in the same orbit:

• kernel file ./drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c
• struct ubi_eba_entry(9)
• struct ubi_eba_table(9)
• ubi_next_sqnum(9)
• ubi_get_compat(9)
• ubi_eba_get_ldesc(9)
• ubi_eba_create_table(9)
• ubi_eba_destroy_table(9)
• ubi_eba_copy_table(9)
• ubi_eba_replace_table(9)
• ltree_lookup(9)
• ltree_add_entry(9)
• leb_read_lock(9)
• leb_read_unlock(9)
• leb_write_lock(9)
• leb_write_trylock(9)
• leb_write_unlock(9)
• ubi_eba_is_mapped(9)
• ubi_eba_unmap_leb(9)
• check_mapping(9)
• ubi_eba_read_leb(9)
• ubi_eba_read_leb_sg(9)
• try_recover_peb(9)
• recover_peb(9)
• try_write_vid_and_data(9)
• ubi_eba_write_leb(9)
• ubi_eba_write_leb_st(9)
• is_error_sane(9)
• ubi_eba_copy_leb(9)
• print_rsvd_warning(9)
• self_check_eba(9)

like I said. a whole squad. 🫶✨

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written with 💖 in the Kernel API Manual, straight from ./drivers/mtd/ubi, dated October 2026. slay. 👑