fm10k_mbx_create_data_hdr(9)

💖 fm10k_mbx_create_data_hdr(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual edition ✨

okay so picture this: it's a Kernel API Manual page, the star of the show is fm10k_mbx_create_data_hdr, and it does exactly one lil job. bestie, it's a short one and honestly? iconic for that. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

fm10k_mbx_create_data_hdr — literally just Generate a data mailbox header. that's the whole vibe. no cap 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void fm10k_mbx_create_data_hdr (struct fm10k_mbx_info *mbx );

note the void — she returns nothing to you, she's mysterious like that 💅

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• mbx — pointer to mailbox. yes bestie, that's it, that's the whole shopping list. one (1) pointer, to a mailbox, and she's ready to go 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what does she do. this function returns a data mailbox header. periodt. that's the entire description. no secret lore, no caveats, no drama — she generates the data mailbox header and she goes home 🌈

ngl if you were hoping for a five-paragraph essay on her hopes and dreams… she doesn't have one. this is a "does what it says on the tin" situation and honestly we respect the brevity 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the source file, in all her glory:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c

the whole friend group (yes, the entire group chat, nobody gets left out):

• fm10k_fifo_init(9), fm10k_fifo_used(9), fm10k_fifo_unused(9), fm10k_fifo_empty(9), fm10k_fifo_head_offset(9), fm10k_fifo_tail_offset(9), fm10k_fifo_head_len(9), fm10k_fifo_head_drop(9), fm10k_fifo_drop_all(9)
• fm10k_mbx_index_len(9), fm10k_mbx_tail_add(9), fm10k_mbx_tail_sub(9), fm10k_mbx_head_add(9), fm10k_mbx_head_sub(9), fm10k_mbx_pushed_tail_len(9)
• fm10k_fifo_write_copy(9), fm10k_fifo_enqueue(9), fm10k_mbx_validate_msg_size(9), fm10k_mbx_write_copy(9), fm10k_mbx_pull_head(9), fm10k_mbx_read_copy(9), fm10k_mbx_push_tail(9)
• fm10k_crc_16b(9), fm10k_fifo_crc(9), fm10k_mbx_update_local_crc(9), fm10k_mbx_verify_remote_crc(9)
• fm10k_mbx_rx_ready(9), fm10k_mbx_tx_ready(9), fm10k_mbx_tx_complete(9), fm10k_mbx_dequeue_rx(9), fm10k_mbx_enqueue_tx(9), fm10k_mbx_read(9), fm10k_mbx_write(9)
• fm10k_mbx_create_connect_hdr(9), fm10k_mbx_create_disconnect_hdr(9), fm10k_mbx_create_fake_disconnect_hdr(9), fm10k_mbx_create_error_msg(9), fm10k_mbx_validate_msg_hdr(9), fm10k_mbx_create_reply(9)
• fm10k_mbx_reset_work(9), fm10k_mbx_update_max_size(9), fm10k_mbx_connect_reset(9), fm10k_mbx_process_connect(9), fm10k_mbx_process_data(9), fm10k_mbx_process_disconnect(9), fm10k_mbx_process_error(9), fm10k_mbx_process(9)
• fm10k_mbx_disconnect(9), fm10k_mbx_connect(9), fm10k_mbx_validate_handlers(9), fm10k_mbx_register_handlers(9)
• fm10k_pfvf_mbx_init(9)
• fm10k_sm_mbx_create_data_hdr(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_create_connect_hdr(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_connect_reset(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_connect(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_disconnect(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_validate_fifo_hdr(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_process_error(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_create_error_msg(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_receive(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_create_reply(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_process_reset(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_process_version_1(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_process(9), fm10k_sm_mbx_init(9)

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and that's the page!! 💜 mwah. she's short, she's sweet, she makes a data mailbox header.

shoutout to the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/f... and the date stamp October 2026 — that's where this page comes from, bestie, that's the lore 🍓

okay bye, go read fm10k_mbx.c, drink some water, and remember: void means she gives you nothing back and that's self-care 🧚✨