vdo_initial...onent_states(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 vdo_initialize_component_states(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one lives in the kernel source tree at ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, and it's fr fr one of those little functions that does exactly what its name says. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

vdo_initialize_component_states — initializes the components so they can be written out 💖 like, it's getting the whole squad dressed and ready to be photographed, y'know?

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int vdo_initialize_component_states (const struct vdo_config *vdo_config
, const struct volume_geometry *geometry , nonce_t nonce , struct
vdo_component_states *states );

look at that signature. iconic. returns an int, takes four things, she's booked and busy 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vdo_config — the config used for component state initialization. this is the blueprint, the vibe check for how everything should be set up 💜
  • geometry — the volume geometry used to calculate the data region offset. she's the one who knows where things go 🦋
  • nonce — the nonce to use to identify the vdo. yes, like a little name tag for your vdo so you know it's yours 🙈
  • states — the component states to initialize. this is the glow-up target — you hand it over and it comes back ready to be written out ✨

⭐ RETURN ⭐

VDO_SUCCESS or an error code. that's it, that's the tea 🍓 either she ate or she didn't, no in-between.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long — like, alarmingly long — but we're not skipping a single one, bestie. take a deep breath 💀

Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/encodings.c plus the whole extended friend group:

like half the dm-vdo subsystem is in here. read them all. i'm so serious. 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026 — mwah, go touch some kernel code ✨👑🌸

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