e1000_setup_...tx_resources(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_setup_...tx_resources(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so this page is literally from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the function's name in the wild is e1000_setup_...tx_resources — yes it's got that little ... in it, that's not me being lazy, that's genuinely how it's written. anyway. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's talk TX descriptors.

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_setup_all_tx_resources — the wrapper that allocates Tx resources (Descriptors) for all the queues. not one. not some. all. she's an overachiever, periodt. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int e1000_setup_all_tx_resources (struct e1000_adapter *adapter );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • adapter — the board private structure. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she takes one (1) pointer and she gets to work. 💅

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

lowkey the whole personality of this function is in its return value, ngl:

  • returns 0 on success 🎉
  • returns negative on failure 💀

that's the contract. no cap, that's it. if you get a negative number back, something did not slay — check your memory, bestie.

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

okay so this one has a lot of friends — like she's the main character of a whole friend group. first up the actual file she lives in: Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c 🌈

and then the entire extended group chat, in order:

like, that's the whole squad right there. setup girlies, free girlies, clean girlies, irq girlies, ioctl girlies — everyone showed up to the group photo. 📸✨

🫶 that's the page!! go forth and allocate responsibly, bestie — and remember, 0 is the only number that counts as a slay here.

kisses and see-you-later from the e1000 manual, sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e..., dated October 2026, and filed under e1000_setup_...tx_resources(9) — mwah 💖

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