bnx2fc_mod_init(9)

💖 bnx2fc_mod_init(9) 💖

okay so real talk bestie, this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual — the (9) means it's a kernel-internal function, not some little userland toy you can just run in your terminal. slay, let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

bnx2fc_mod_init — the module init entry point, aka the moment this whole driver wakes up and says hi 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int bnx2fc_mod_init (void );

it literally takes nothing and hands you back an int, no cap.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. nothing. empty. she takes zero input and she is thriving about it 💀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — bnx2fc_mod_init does exactly two iconic things:

1. it initializes the driver-wide global data structures (the shared stuff the whole driver leans on, all set up fresh ✨)
2. it registers with the cnic module — like, sliding into cnic's DMs so the two of them can actually talk to each other 🫶

that's the whole vibe. setup + registration. main character energy from the very first call 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr — first up, the source lives in the kernel file ./drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c, and then there's the entire squad:

• bnx2fc_xmit(9)
• bnx2fc_rcv(9)
• bnx2fc_percpu_io_thread(9)
• bnx2fc_get_link_state(9)
• bnx2fc_indicate_netevent(9)
• bnx2fc_fip_recv(9)
• bnx2fc_update_src_mac(9)
• bnx2fc_get_src_mac(9)
• bnx2fc_fip_send(9)
• bnx2fc_hba_create(9)
• bnx2fc_if_create(9)
• bnx2fc_destroy(9)
• bnx2fc_bind_adapter_devices(9)
• bnx2fc_ulp_get_stats(9)
• bnx2fc_ulp_start(9)
• bnx2fc_ulp_stop(9)
• bnx2fc_ulp_init(9)
• bnx2fc_ctlr_enabled(9)
• _bnx2fc_create(9)
• bnx2fc_create(9)
• bnx2fc_ctlr_alloc(9)
• bnx2fc_find_hba_for_cnic(9)
• bnx2fc_ulp_exit(9)
• bnx2fc_fcoe_reset(9)
• bnx2fc_cpu_online(9)

like, that's twenty-five whole functions. twenty-five!! the bnx2fc family is big and every single one of them is in the group chat 💖

ngl bestie, if you're reading this page you're probably poking at kernel source, so keep those backticks and function names exactly as they are — no renaming, no "fixing", no merging. the compiler does not find it cute 🙈

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⭐ the cute sign-off ⭐

this little love letter comes from the kernel source dir ./drivers/scsi/bnx2fc, dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's serving future-era kernel documentation and she knows it 💅✨

go touch some code bestie, ily, bye 🎀🦋💜