ca8210_stop(9)

💅 ca8210_stop(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you're in the Kernel API Manual and the page is literally ca8210_stop(9) — say hi to your new hyperfixation 🎀 she's a network driver stopper and she ate, no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ca8210_stop — Stops the network driver

like genuinely that's it, that's the whole job description 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ca8210_stop (struct ieee802154_hw *hw );

that's the whole signature, copy it exactly, don't @ me 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hw — the ieee802154_hw of the ca8210 that's getting stopped. that's the one, that's the target 💖

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 or a linux error code.

and yeah, the signature up there is void, but the manpage says 0 or a linux error code and I am literally just the messenger, bestie 😭 I don't make the rules, I just make them cute 🎀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c and honestly the whole extended friend group — every single one of these icons makes an appearance:

• 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_start(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 page, bestie 🌈 you understood it, I understood it, we all understood it 💜

signing off from ./drivers/net/ieee802154, stamped October 2026, straight out of the Kernel API Manual — mwah 🍓🧚‍♀️✨