bnx2x_release_leader_lock(9)

💅 bnx2x_release_leader_lock(9) — kernel API manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — it's giving "one tiny function, one very specific job," and we're gonna read it together. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bnx2x_release_leader_lock — releases the recovery leader lock. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-task icon 👑

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🔥 SYNOPSIS 🔥

int bnx2x_release_leader_lock (struct bnx2x *bp );

literally returns an int, takes exactly one arg, and just frees that leader lock. clean, simple, main character energy. periodt.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• bp — the driver handle 💖 (this is your struct bnx2x *, your whole context, your bestie in pointer form)

and that's the entire list. one arg. no optional extras. she ate and left no crumbs 🙈

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

the reading list is long, ngl — but every single one of these is here fr fr, no skips:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h 📁
• 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_cnic(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_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)

like... the whole bnx2x friend group showed up to the function's birthday party 🫶 iconic behavior.

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🧚 cute sign-off 🧚

this page came from the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadco... (yes, truncated by the manpage renderer, not me 💅) and it's dated October 2026 — the future? maybe. slay either way. and the page's own name is bnx2x_release_leader_lock(9) in case you forgot in the last 30 seconds, bestie 💜🌸