b43_software_rfkill(9)

💅 b43_software_rfkill(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual entry bestie 🎀

okay so real talk, this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and its whole entire name is b43_software_rfkill(9). Say it with me. Iconic. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

b43_software_rfkill — Turn the radio ON or OFF in software.

Like, yes, that's literally it. One job. It does it. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void b43_software_rfkill (struct b43_wldev *dev , bool blocked );

That's the whole signature, no cap. Copy it exactly, don't go editing it, she's perfect as she is. 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

So there's two of them and ngl the docs are kinda shy about both:

• dev — -- undescribed -- 😭 like the manpage literally does not describe this one. It's giving mystery. It's giving "ask your kernel dev friend."
• blocked — -- undescribed -- 🙈 also undescribed!! no explanation, no vibes, nothing. We respect the silence tho.

fr fr though — if a manual says -- undescribed --, that's not me being lazy, that's the page being mysterious. Do not invent meanings. iykyk 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Bestie, get comfy, this list is long and every single one of these is invited to the sleepover. Also heads up, there's a kernel file reference first:

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

• 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_lock(9)
• b43_radio_unlock(9)
• b43_phy_lock(9)
• b43_phy_unlock(9)
• b43_switch_channel(9)
• b43_phy_txpower_check(9)
• enum b43_phy_txpower_check_flags(9)
• b43_phy_shm_tssi_read(9)

that's twenty-eight (28) entries plus the header file, and we did NOT skip a single one because we are thorough and we are obsessed with completeness. periodt. 👑

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⭐ cute lil sign-off ⭐

This whole page came from ./drivers/net/wireless/broadco... (yes it's truncated like that in the source, don't come for me, I don't make the file paths) and it's dated October 2026 — very main character, very future vibes 🦋 — and the name up top and down here at the bottom is still, forever and always, b43_software_rfkill(9). mwah 💜