fm10k_fifo_head_drop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 fm10k_fifo_head_drop(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, and today's main character is fm10k_fifo_head_drop(9) — yes she's a function, yes she's iconic, and yes she's about to yeet the first message out of a FIFO 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

fm10k_fifo_head_drop — drop the first message in the FIFO 🗑️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u16 fm10k_fifo_head_drop (struct fm10k_mbx_fifo *fifo );

like, that's the whole signature. u16 return type, one arg, no cap 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • fifo — pointer to the FIFO 💖 (yes literally just a pointer to the FIFO, she's not complicated, she's just a girl)

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so the way this works is: this function returns the size of the message that got dropped from the FIFO 💀 that's it, that's the vibe. it drops the head message, and then it tells you how big that dropped message was. the answer comes back as a u16, periodt 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, fr fr — the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c and honestly bestie here's the full squad, every single one:

like... that's a lot of friends but every single one of them ate 💅👑

ngl the manpage footer was serving truncated-source realness: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/f... — that's the source/version line bestie, and the date on it is October 2026 🗓️✨

and that's the page!! mwah, go drop some FIFO heads responsibly, ily, bye 🧚💖🎀

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