ad_tx_machine(9)

✨ ad_tx_machine(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — it's ad_tx_machine(9) and it's literally the whole entire vibe of running a port's tx state machine. yes that's a lot of lowercase and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

ad_tx_machine — handle a port's tx state machine

like, that's the job. that's the whole job. one function, one port, one state machine that needs handling 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ad_tx_machine (struct port *port );

that's it. that's the function. it returns void (so nothing comes back out, don't go looking for a return value babes) and it takes exactly one thing 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• port — the port we're looking at 👀 that's the one. that's the port. the tx state machine of this port is the one getting handled, no cap

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where the page just absolutely goes off — there is SO much family here, it's giving huge friend group energy, and every single one of them is a (9) entry:

• __get_bond_by_port(9)
• __get_first_agg(9)
• __agg_has_partner(9)
• __disable_distributing_port(9)
• __enable_collecting_port(9)
• __disable_port(9)
• __enable_port(9)
• __port_move_to_attached_state(9)
• __port_is_collecting_distributing(9)
• __get_agg_selection_mode(9)
• __check_agg_selection_timer(9)
• __get_link_speed(9)
• __get_duplex(9)
• __ad_timer_to_ticks(9)
• __choose_matched(9)
• __record_pdu(9)
• __record_default(9)
• __update_selected(9)
• __update_default_selected(9)
• __update_ntt(9)
• __agg_ports_are_ready(9)
• __set_agg_ports_ready(9)
• __get_agg_bandwidth(9)
• __get_active_agg(9)
• __update_lacpdu_from_port(9)
• ad_lacpdu_send(9)
• ad_marker_send(9)
• ad_mux_machine(9)
• ad_rx_machine(9)
• ad_churn_machine(9)
• ad_periodic_machine(9)
• ad_port_selection_logic(9)
• ad_agg_selection_logic(9)
• ad_clear_agg(9)
• ad_initialize_agg(9)
• ad_initialize_port(9)
• ad_enable_collecting(9)
• ad_disable_distributing(9)
• ad_enable_collecting_distributing(9)
• ad_disable_collecting_distributing(9)
• ad_marker_info_received(9)
• ad_marker_response_received(9)
• bond_3ad_initiate_agg_selection(9)
• bond_3ad_initialize(9)
• bond_3ad_bind_slave(9)
• bond_3ad_unbind_slave(9)
• bond_3ad_update_ad_actor_settings(9)
• bond_agg_timer_advance(9)
• bond_3ad_state_machine_handler(9)
• bond_3ad_rx_indication(9)
• ad_update_actor_keys(9)
• bond_3ad_adapter_speed_duplex_changed(9)
• bond_3ad_handle_link_change(9)
• bond_3ad_set_carrier(9)
• __bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(9)
• bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate(9)
• bond_3ad_update_lacp_active(9)

and if you wanna read the source yourself (and honestly, iconic behavior), it lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c 🌈 read it, bestie, it's right there

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real talk: every single name above is spelled exactly how the page spells it, which includes those two leading underscores — do not "clean them up" 💀 copy them character for character, iykyk

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and that's the whole page!! go handle that tx state machine, main character 💖 this was brought to you by the source ./drivers/net/bonding, dated October 2026 — mwah, bye bestie, slay 🎀✨💅