wait_for_status_poll(9)

✨ wait_for_status_poll(9) ✨

okay bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one is a lil function named wait_for_status_poll — she's out here waiting for a write to the api cmd command to complete 💅 like literally just sitting there until the thing finishes, no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int wait_for_status_poll (struct hinic_api_cmd_chain *chain );

one function, one argument, returns an int — she's lowkey simple like that 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• chain — the chain of the command 💖 that's it, that's the whole parameter. it's the struct hinic_api_cmd_chain * you're handing over.

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

here's the whole vibe check, and honestly it's short and sweet:

• 0 — Success 👑
• negative — Failure 💀

that's the entire description fr fr. return 0 and you ate; return something negative and… not me getting an error 😭

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group, all of them (9) section besties 🫶:

• chain_busy(9)
• get_cell_data_size(9)
• prepare_cell_ctrl(9)
• prepare_api_cmd(9)
• prepare_cell(9)
• api_cmd_status_update(9)
• wait_for_api_cmd_completion(9)
• api_cmd(9)
• hinic_api_cmd_write(9)
• api_cmd_hw_restart(9)
• api_cmd_ctrl_init(9)
• api_cmd_set_status_addr(9)
• api_cmd_set_num_cells(9)
• api_cmd_head_init(9)
• api_cmd_chain_hw_clean(9)
• api_cmd_chain_hw_init(9)
• free_cmd_buf(9)
• alloc_cmd_buf(9)
• api_cmd_create_cell(9)
• api_cmd_destroy_cell(9)
• api_cmd_destroy_cells(9)
• api_cmd_create_cells(9)
• api_chain_init(9)
• api_chain_free(9)
• api_cmd_create_chain(9)
• api_cmd_destroy_chain(9)
• hinic_api_cmd_init(9)
• hinic_api_cmd_free(9)

and if you wanna read the actual source (iconic behaviour honestly), she lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_api_cmd.c — go say hi 🦋

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quick reminder bestie: 0 = slay, negative = 💀. there is no in-between, the manpage said what it said.

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okay that's the page!! mwah 💖 this lil entry came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and it's dated October 2026 — periodt, go poll that status bestie ✨🎀