b43_radio_maskset(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 b43_radio_maskset(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to b43_radio_maskset, a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual. quick vibe check: this one is a NAME-and-SYNOPSIS girly — she tells you what she's called and how you call her, and then the docs just… leave the room. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

b43_radio_maskset — Mask and OR a radio register with a mask and bitmap

that's the whole pitch. masking? yes. ORing? also yes. radio register? bestie, it's right there in the name 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void b43_radio_maskset(struct b43_wldev *dev, u16 offset, u16 mask,
                       u16 set);

it returns void — nothing comes back out, so don't sit there waiting for a return value like it's gonna text you back 😭

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

and here's where it gets iconic in the worst way. the manpage literally gives us four arguments and then refuses to elaborate on any of them. I'm not hiding anything from you, I promise — the source text says -- undescribed -- for every single one, and I would never make up lore about a kernel function. periodt.

  • dev — -- undescribed -- 🙈
  • offset — -- undescribed -- 🙈
  • mask — -- undescribed -- 🙈
  • set — -- undescribed -- 🙈

four arguments, zero descriptions, maximum mystery. it's giving "the author was in a hurry and the docs generator said 'fine, I'll do it myself'" energy. if you need the real tea on these, you're gonna have to read the source — this page is not the main character here 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so this is the part where the page ate. the SEE ALSO section goes absolutely feral, and it lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_common.h. every single one of these, bestie, exactly as written:

like, the way this page will introduce you to the entire b43 phy family but not describe its own four arguments? highkey hilarious. lowkey iconic. go read the others, they probably have actual words in them 💀

heads up bestie: this page is a stub in the docs — "undescribed" means undescribed, and no amount of group-chat speculation changes that. don't treat anything I made up about the vibes as a fact about the hardware ✨

and that's the whole page, babe. source line reads ./drivers/net/wireless/broadco... and she was dated October 2026 — so shoutout to that truncated little path and that future-dated stamp, they're doing their best 🍓 mwah, go read b43_radio_mask(9) and b43_radio_set(9) next, they're literally her siblings 👑💖

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