alloc_fddidev(9)

💖 alloc_fddidev(9) — a Kernel API Manual page 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

alloc_fddidev — Register FDDI device. that's the whole vibe, bestie: it registers an FDDI device 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct net_device * alloc_fddidev (int sizeof_priv );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sizeof_priv — the size of the additional driver-private structure that gets allocated for this FDDI device. basically: how much extra room your driver needs for its own private data area 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this function fills in the fields of the device structure with FDDI-generic values — very “standard FDDI setup” energy ✨

it constructs a new net device, complete with a private data area of size sizeof_priv. and for that private data area, a 32-byte alignment is enforced — that's bytes, not bits, bestie, don't do a bits/bytes mix-up 😭. the original literally says “(not bit)” so we're being loud about it: 32-byte alignment, periodt 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./net/802/fddi.c — that's the source-file bestie to check if you want the deep lore 💜

mwah 💋 this page's source/version is ./net/802, and the date on it is October 2026 — iconic, slay, bye 🎀