LIFE CYCLE OF THE TRANSPORT LAYER(9)

💖 Life cycle of the transport layer(9) 💖

Okay bestie, this one is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's giving very precise life cycle energy. The transport layer does not do chaos — it has steps, and we're gonna respect them.

The transport layer has a very precise life cycle.

1. A helper function is called during the module initialization, and it registers the bus driver's ops with the transport's alloc function. ✨
2. Bus's probe calls the transport layer's allocation functions. And yes, of course this function is bus specific. 🚌
3. Those allocation functions will spawn the upper layer, which will register mac80211. 💅
4. At some point (i.e. mac80211's start call), the op_mode will call this exact sequence: start_hw start_fw. 🔥
5. Then when it's finished (or reset): stop_device. 🛑
6. Eventually, the free function will be called. Bye bestie, clean exit. 🦋

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
• Transport layer - what is it ?(9)
• enum CMD_MODE(9)
• struct iwl_device_cmd(9)
• struct iwl_device_tx_cmd(9)
• enum iwl_hcmd_dataflag(9)
• struct iwl_host_cmd(9)
• enum iwl_trans_status(9)
• struct iwl_dump_sanitize_ops(9)
• struct iwl_trans_config(9)
• struct iwl_trans_rxq_dma_data(9)
• struct iwl_pnvm_image(9)
• enum iwl_trans_state(9)
• Platform power management(9)
• enum iwl_ini_cfg_state(9)
• struct iwl_dram_data(9)
• struct iwl_dram_regions(9)
• struct iwl_fw_mon(9)
• struct iwl_self_init_dram(9)
• struct iwl_imr_data(9)
• struct iwl_pc_data(9)
• struct iwl_trans_debug(9)
• struct iwl_trans_info(9)
• struct iwl_trans(9)
• iwl_trans_resched_with_nic_access(9)

Catch you later, icon 💜 — this page came from source/version ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i..., dated October 2026. Slay. 🎀