bdx_hw_start(9)

💖 bdx_hw_start(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, we're reading kernel docs together, this is our lore now 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

bdx_hw_start — the one that inits registers and starts HW's Rx and Tx engines 🔥

like, it literally wakes the hardware up. registers get set, and then the receive and transmit engines are up and running. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int bdx_hw_start (struct bdx_priv *priv );

it gives you back an int, and it takes exactly one thing. that's it. that's the whole vibe check 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• priv — the NIC private structure 🫶 like, the NIC's whole personal little bag of state. hand it over and we go.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tehuti.c — that's the source, go read it, iykyk 📖

and now the full friend group, no cap, every single one of them:

bdx_fifo_init(9), bdx_fifo_free(9), bdx_link_changed(9), bdx_isr_napi(9), bdx_fw_load(9), bdx_close(9), bdx_open(9), __bdx_vlan_rx_vid(9), bdx_vlan_rx_add_vid(9), bdx_vlan_rx_kill_vid(9), bdx_change_mtu(9), bdx_rx_init(9), bdx_rx_free_skbs(9), bdx_rx_free(9), bdx_rx_alloc_skbs(9), bdx_rx_receive(9), __bdx_tx_db_ptr_next(9), bdx_tx_db_inc_rptr(9), bdx_tx_db_inc_wptr(9), bdx_tx_db_init(9), bdx_tx_db_close(9), bdx_tx_map_skb(9), bdx_tx_space(9), bdx_tx_transmit(9), bdx_tx_cleanup(9), bdx_tx_free_skbs(9), bdx_tx_push_desc(9), bdx_tx_push_desc_safe(9), bdx_probe(9), bdx_remove(9)

that's 30 besties and every single one of them ate 💀🌈

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ngl this page is short but she's iconic. no options, no env vars, no exit statuses — just vibes, one struct pointer, and a hardware bring-up 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 from ./drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti, dated October 2026 — periodt, see you in the next manpage 🧚💖