b43_radio_lock(9)

💅 b43_radio_lock(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual one

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for b43_radio_lock, and yes this page is short, but short can still slay ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

b43_radio_lock — locks firmware-side radio register access 🔒📻

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void b43_radio_lock (struct b43_wldev *dev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. main character energy, zero notes 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the manpage literally says -- undescribed -- and honestly? iconic in a tragic way 😭 we do not know what this one does. the docs said "not today." respect the mystery fr fr 🕵️‍♀️

not me writing a whole section for an argument the source page didn't even describe 💀 but bestie, I keep the facts exactly as they came, so -- undescribed -- it is 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group shows up here, and it's a lot of them 🌈 starting with the kernel file they all live in:

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

and then, in the order they were listed (no cap, I did not reorder a single one 👑):

• enum b43_interference_mitigation(9)
• enum b43_txpwr_result(9)
• struct b43_phy_operations(9)
• b43_phy_allocate(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_unlock(9) ← the girlies who pair with this page 💖
• 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, the whole b43 phy/radio cinematic universe is in the group chat 🦋 and b43_radio_unlock(9) is obviously the one you text after you lock — iykyk 🔐

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🍼 a tiny note from your girl: b43_radio_lock locks firmware radio register access. that's the whole bit. go read the see-also list if you want the lore, bestie 📚

and that's the page!! sourced from ./drivers/net/wireless/broadco... 🎀 dated October 2026 ⭐ hope this helped, mwah 💜🧚‍♀️