ca8210_start(9)

💅 ca8210_start(9) — the Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense 🎀

Okay so bestie, we're deep in the Kernel API Manual today (the nine-section one, iykyk), and this little function right here is ca8210_start — she's the one who starts the network driver ✨. Yeah. That's the whole vibe. Iconic, honestly.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ca8210_start (struct ieee802154_hw *hw );

Literally just int ca8210_start (struct ieee802154_hw *hw ); — that's her. No cap. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — the ieee802154_hw of the ca8210 that's being started. Like, the hardware handle for the thing we're waking up, slay. 🌸

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

Returns 0 or a linux error code. That's it. Zero means we ate, anything else means the kernel's about to be in her flop era 😭.

ngl, always check the return value. 0 = main character energy, error code = read the room. 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Okay this list is long long — like, sixty-ish cross-references. But we do not skip. Every single one, periodt. 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c, plus:
• struct cas_control(9)
• struct ca8210_test(9)
• struct ca8210_priv(9)
• struct work_priv_container(9)
• struct ca8210_platform_data(9)
• struct fulladdr(9)
• union macaddr(9)
• struct secspec(9)
• link_to_linux_err(9)
• ca8210_test_int_driver_write(9)
• ca8210_reset_send(9)
• ca8210_mlme_reset_worker(9)
• ca8210_rx_done(9)
• ca8210_spi_transfer_complete(9)
• ca8210_spi_transfer(9)
• ca8210_spi_exchange(9)
• ca8210_interrupt_handler(9)
• tdme_setsfr_request_sync(9)
• tdme_chipinit(9)
• tdme_channelinit(9)
• tdme_checkpibattribute(9)
• tdme_settxpower(9)
• mcps_data_request(9)
• mlme_reset_request_sync(9)
• mlme_set_request_sync(9)
• hwme_set_request_sync(9)
• hwme_get_request_sync(9)
• ca8210_async_xmit_complete(9)
• ca8210_skb_rx(9)
• ca8210_net_rx(9)
• ca8210_skb_tx(9)
• ca8210_stop(9)
• ca8210_xmit_async(9)
• ca8210_get_ed(9)
• ca8210_set_channel(9)
• ca8210_set_hw_addr_filt(9)
• ca8210_set_tx_power(9)
• ca8210_set_cca_mode(9)
• ca8210_set_cca_ed_level(9)
• ca8210_set_csma_params(9)
• ca8210_set_frame_retries(9)
• ca8210_test_int_open(9)
• ca8210_test_check_upstream(9)
• ca8210_test_int_user_write(9)
• ca8210_test_int_user_read(9)
• ca8210_test_int_ioctl(9)
• ca8210_test_int_poll(9)
• ca8210_get_platform_data(9)
• ca8210_config_extern_clk(9)
• ca8210_register_ext_clock(9)
• ca8210_unregister_ext_clock(9)
• ca8210_reset_init(9)
• ca8210_interrupt_init(9)
• ca8210_dev_com_init(9)
• ca8210_dev_com_clear(9)
• ca8210_hw_setup(9)
• ca8210_test_interface_init(9)
• ca8210_test_interface_clear(9)
• ca8210_remove(9)
• ca8210_probe(9)

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And that's the whole page, bestie 💖 She's short, she's sweet, she starts the network driver. We love a concise queen.

Signed, sealed, delivered — this one lives in ./drivers/net/ieee802154, dated October 2026, and answers to the name ca8210_start(9). Catch you in the kernel source, mwah 💅✨