b43_phy_allocate(9)

💅 b43_phy_allocate — from the Kernel API Manual bestie 🫶

okay so real talk, this is b43_phy_allocate(9), a kernel API page, and it's honestly short but she's got range 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

b43_phy_allocate — Allocate PHY structs. Like, allocate the PHY data structures, based on the current dev->phy.type — that's literally the whole job, no cap 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int b43_phy_allocate (struct b43_wldev *dev );

that's it, that's the whole signature, she's serving minimalism 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — umm... -- undescribed -- 😭 like the manpage genuinely does not describe this one. not me getting left on read by the documentation. it's giving "figure it out yourself bestie" 🙈 so yeah, that's exactly what it says: undescribed. no extra lore, no invented lore, we don't make stuff up here ⭐

ngl this is the shortest arguments section I've ever seen and I respect it fr fr 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is where she eats 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_common.h

and then the whole friend group, all of them, every single one, no skipping:

• enum b43_interference_mitigation(9)
• enum b43_txpwr_result(9)
• struct b43_phy_operations(9)
• b43_phy_free(9)
• b43_phy_init(9)
• b43_phy_exit(9)
• b43_has_hardware_pctl(9)
• b43_phy_read(9)
• b43_phy_write(9)
• b43_phy_copy(9)
• b43_phy_mask(9)
• b43_phy_set(9)
• b43_phy_maskset(9)
• b43_radio_read(9)
• b43_radio_write(9)
• b43_radio_mask(9)
• b43_radio_set(9)
• b43_radio_maskset(9)
• b43_radio_wait_value(9)
• b43_radio_lock(9)
• b43_radio_unlock(9)
• b43_phy_lock(9)
• b43_phy_unlock(9)
• b43_switch_channel(9)
• b43_software_rfkill(9)
• b43_phy_txpower_check(9)
• enum b43_phy_txpower_check_flags(9)
• b43_phy_shm_tssi_read(9)

like genuinely go read b43_phy_free(9) after this one, they're a matched set, allocate + free, the iconic duo 🌈

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anyway bestie, page source is ./drivers/net/wireless/broadco... and the date stamp says October 2026, and the doc herself is b43_phy_allocate(9) — mwah, go touch some PHY structs, ily, bye 👑💜