vme_new_dma_list(9)

💅 vme_new_dma_list — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the vme_new_dma_list(9) page ✨ this is the Kernel API Manual, and we're about to make a whole new VME DMA list together. it's giving low-level but make it cute 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vme_new_dma_list — Create new VME DMA list. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it slayfully 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct vme_dma_list * vme_new_dma_list (struct vme_resource *resource );

like, you hand her a resource and she hands you back a shiny new list pointer. iconic behavior tbh 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• resource — Pointer to VME DMA resource. that's your golden ticket, no cap 🎟️

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So here's the tea ☕: you call this and she creates a new VME DMA list for you, periodt.

but listen — and this is the important part, bestie — it is the responsibility of the user to free the list once it is no longer required with vme_dma_list_free. like, she'll make it, but she will NOT clean it up for you. that's your moment to be a responsible main character 🫶 don't leave your lists lying around, fr fr.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• Pointer to new VME DMA list 🎉
• NULL on allocation failure or invalid VME DMA resource 😭

so yeah, always vibe check that return value before you dereference it, iykyk 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and now, the moment you've all been waiting for — the full friend group 👑 every single one of them, no skips:

Kernel file ./drivers/staging/vme_user/vme.c plus:

vme_alloc_consistent(9), vme_free_consistent(9), vme_get_size(9), vme_slave_request(9), vme_slave_set(9), vme_slave_get(9), vme_slave_free(9), vme_master_request(9), vme_master_set(9), vme_master_get(9), vme_master_read(9), vme_master_write(9), vme_master_rmw(9), vme_master_mmap_prepare(9), vme_master_free(9), vme_dma_request(9), vme_dma_pattern_attribute(9), vme_dma_pci_attribute(9), vme_dma_vme_attribute(9), vme_dma_free_attribute(9), vme_dma_list_add(9), vme_dma_list_exec(9), vme_dma_list_free(9), vme_dma_free(9), vme_irq_request(9), vme_irq_free(9), vme_irq_generate(9), vme_lm_request(9), vme_lm_count(9), vme_lm_set(9), vme_lm_get(9), vme_lm_attach(9), vme_lm_detach(9), vme_lm_free(9), vme_slot_num(9), vme_bus_num(9), vme_register_driver(9), vme_unregister_driver(9)

like, that's the whole squad 🧚 go read them, they're all icons 💅

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and that's the page!! 🦋 this little gem lives in ./drivers/staging/vme_user, dated October 2026 — mwah, sending you off with a kiss, go free your lists 💖✨🍓