b43_switch_channel(9)

👑 b43_switch_channel(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

Okay so like, this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual for b43_switch_channel, and honestly? It's giving "short but iconic." Let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

b43_switch_channel — switch to another channel, no cap 🎀

That's it. That's the whole vibe. It switches you to another channel. Main character behavior fr fr.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int b43_switch_channel (struct b43_wldev *dev , unsigned int new_channel
);

So yeah, it returns an int (iykyk, that's the return value), and you hand it a struct b43_wldev *dev plus an unsigned int new_channel. That's the whole call 💖

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev — literally just -- undescribed -- 😭 like the manpage itself didn't even describe it. Not me being handed a mystery parameter. The docs say nothing more, so I'm not gonna invent lore, periodt.
• new_channel — same situation bestie, -- undescribed -- 🙈 the name is all we get. It's the new channel. That's the whole story.

Just a heads up: these two arguments are marked -- undescribed -- in the source page, so I'm not out here making up behavior. Zero guessing, only facts 💅

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Okay this is the part where the manpage goes feral and lists, like, everyone. All of these are from the Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_common.h — and yes, enum is right there in the reference list, I'm not editing that:

• 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_software_rfkill(9)
• b43_phy_txpower_check(9)
• enum b43_phy_txpower_check_flags(9)
• b43_phy_shm_tssi_read(9)

Like, twenty-eight whole entries. She's thorough 💀 and we love that for her.

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🎀 the cute sign-off 🎀

And that's the page!! Source is ./drivers/net/wireless/broadco... (yes it's truncated in the original, I'm keeping it exactly as it is, don't come for me 😭) and it's dated October 2026. Slay, see you in the next channel bestie 🌈💜✨