fbnic_netdev_register(9)

💖 fbnic_netdev_register(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual era 🎀

okay so bestie, this is fbnic_netdev_register from the kernel API manual and honestly? it's a little cutie. she's the one who actually gets your netdev out into the world, iykyk. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fbnic_netdev_register — initialize general software structures 💅

like yes that's the whole vibe: she sets up the general software structures and gets things ready. periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int fbnic_netdev_register (struct net_device *netdev );

that's the signature, no cap — int going in, one struct net_device * coming out the other side. 🫶

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• netdev — the netdev containing structure you're gonna initialize and register. that's her. that's the main character. 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea: fbnic_netdev_register initializes the MAC address for the netdev, and then it registers it. that's it. that's the whole job. MAC address set → registered → slay. 💅✨

ngl it's a short description but she ate and left no crumbs.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 on success 🎉 (we love a zero, iconic)
• negative on failure 😭 (not the negative, but okay, it happens)

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_netdev.c — go read the source bestie, it's right there 📖
• fbnic_netdev_free(9) — her cleanup bestie 🧹
• fbnic_netdev_alloc(9) — the one who brings her into existence 🐣

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💀 heads up: the return is 0 on success and negative on failure — so don't go checking for -1 specifically, just check for negative, ok? love u, wouldn't want you debugging that at 3am 🙈

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and that's the page!! 🦋 written from ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic, dated October 2026, manual section 9, fbnic_netdev_register — byeee, go register some netdevs, mwah 💖🎀⭐