bnx2x_free_mem_cnic(9)

💅 bnx2x_free_mem_cnic — Kernel API Manual (section 9) 🎀

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel API manual, section 9, and the function we're stanning today is bnx2x_free_mem_cnic. It's giving cleanup era. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bnx2x_free_mem_cnic — release driver's memory for cnic.

Like, it frees the driver's memory. For cnic. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void bnx2x_free_mem_cnic (struct bnx2x *bp );

Note the void — no return value, no little treat for you at the end, she just does her thing and dips. 💅

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• bp — driver handle. That's your all-access pass to the driver, bestie. Hand her over and she knows exactly whose memory she's releasing.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

First up, the actual location on disk, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h

And then — bestie, brace yourself — the whole entire friend group. This is the bnx2x extended universe and honestly? iconic. 🌈

• bnx2x_send_unload_req(9)
• bnx2x_send_unload_done(9)
• bnx2x__init_func_obj(9)
• bnx2x_setup_queue(9)
• bnx2x_setup_leading(9)
• bnx2x_fw_command(9)
• bnx2x_initial_phy_init(9)
• bnx2x_link_set(9)
• bnx2x_force_link_reset(9)
• bnx2x_link_test(9)
• bnx2x_drv_pulse(9)
• bnx2x_igu_ack_sb(9)
• bnx2x__link_status_update(9)
• bnx2x_link_report(9)
• bnx2x_get_mf_speed(9)
• bnx2x_msix_sp_int(9)
• bnx2x_interrupt(9)
• bnx2x_cnic_notify(9)
• bnx2x_setup_cnic_irq_info(9)
• bnx2x_setup_cnic_info(9)
• bnx2x_int_enable(9)
• bnx2x_int_disable_sync(9)
• bnx2x_nic_init_cnic(9)
• bnx2x_alloc_mem_cnic(9)
• bnx2x_alloc_mem(9)
• bnx2x_free_mem(9)
• bnx2x_set_num_queues(9)
• bnx2x_chip_cleanup(9)
• bnx2x_acquire_hw_lock(9)
• bnx2x_release_hw_lock(9)
• bnx2x_release_leader_lock(9)
• bnx2x_set_eth_mac(9)
• bnx2x_sp_event(9)
• bnx2x_ilt_set_info(9)
• bnx2x_dcbx_init(9)
• bnx2x_set_power_state(9)
• bnx2x_update_max_mf_config(9)
• bnx2x_enable_msix(9)
• bnx2x_enable_msi(9)
• bnx2x_alloc_mem_bp(9)
• bnx2x_free_mem_bp(9)
• bnx2x_change_mtu(9)
• bnx2x_fcoe_get_wwn(9)
• bnx2x_tx_timeout(9)
• bnx2x_tx_disable(9)
• bnx2x_func_start(9)
• bnx2x_set_fw_mac_addr(9)
• bnx2x_get_path_func_num(9)
• bnx2x_wait_sp_comp(9)
• bnx2x_set_ctx_validation(9)
• bnx2x_extract_max_cfg(9)
• bnx2x_get_iscsi_info(9)
• bnx2x_link_sync_notify(9)
• bnx2x_update_drv_flags(9)
• bnx2x_fill_fw_str(9)
• bnx2x_set_os_driver_state(9)
• bnx2x_nvram_read(9)

Fifty-seven entries. Not me counting them all. (I counted them all.) 😭

Heads up bestie: bnx2x_alloc_mem_cnic(9) is right there in the list — that's the other half of the story. This one frees, that one allocates. Don't get them twisted. 🫶

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🧚 one last thing, fr fr 🌸

This page lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadco... (yes, the source path got cut off in the footer, that's just how the manpage renders it — I'm not making it up 💀) and it's dated October 2026. Periodt. Go free that memory, queen. 👑