zl3073x_dev...lash_prepare(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the zl3073x driver, it's giving kernel-time, and this lil function is literally the glow-up moment where your device goes from "normal operation" to full-on flash mode 🦋. That's the whole vibe. Come sit, I'll walk you through it.

✨ NAME ✨

zl3073x_devlink_flash_prepare — the one that prepares and enters flash mode. Iconic, honestly.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int zl3073x_devlink_flash_prepare (struct zl3073x_dev *zldev , struct
       zl3073x_fw *zlfw , struct netlink_ext_ack *extack );

Three args, all business. Copy it exactly, no cap — don't be out here retyping the signature from memory 😭.

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • zldev — your zl3073x device pointer. Like, the main character of the whole operation 👑.
  • zlfw — pointer to the loaded firmware. The fit the device is about to put on 💅.
  • extack — netlink extack pointer, used to report errors. The group chat where bad news gets announced 📢.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the tea: this function stops normal operation and switches the device over to flash mode. Full send. 🚀

And like — bestie — if an error happens along the way, the normal operation is resumed. It's not leaving you stranded in flash mode, that would be so rude 🙈. It backs out gracefully and puts everything back how it was.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 🎉 (slay)
  • <0 on error 💀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

Kernel file ./drivers/dpll/zl3073x/devlink.c — go read it, iykyk 📖

All the besties in the same friend group, fr fr 🌈.

Okay that's the whole page, and I'm obsessed. It lives out of ./drivers/dpll/zl3073x, dated October 2026, straight from the Kernel API Manual — and the header/footer both read zl3073x_dev...lash_prepare(9) because the terminal is doing that truncation thing again 😭. Love that for us. Byeee 💖✨
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