atl1_setup_ring_resources(9)

💅 atl1_setup_ring_resources — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

Okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? It's a little shorty but she does her job. Let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

atl1_setup_ring_resources — literally the girl who allocates your Tx / RX descriptor resources 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s32 atl1_setup_ring_resources (struct atl1_adapter *adapter );

Copy it exactly, no cap. That's the whole signature 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the board private structure. That's it, that's the vibe. She's the main character here and everyone else is a guest 🌈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Highkey the entire personality of this function is: return 0 on success, and a negative value on failure 😭 That's the whole description. No lore, no backstory, just vibes and a return code.

So like… if you get 0, slay 💅 If you get something negative, that's your sign that it did NOT eat 🔥

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Peep the kernel file first, she's the source of truth:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.c

And now the whole friend group 🧚 — every single one of these, no skipping:

• atl1_check_options(9)
• atl1_sw_init(9)
• atl1_clean_rx_ring(9)
• atl1_clean_tx_ring(9)
• atl1_free_ring_resources(9)
• atl1_configure(9)
• atl1_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• atl1_intr(9)
• atl1_phy_config(9)
• atl1_change_mtu(9)
• atl1_open(9)
• atl1_close(9)
• atl1_probe(9)
• atl1_remove(9)

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💖 that's the whole page bestie, go forth and allocate 💖

This lil icon dropped from ./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros... way back in October 2026, living under the Kernel API Manual umbrella — and yes she's still atl1_setup_ring_resources(9) at the bottom of the page, periodt 🎀✨