fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💌 fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a tiny little function that does one very specific mailbox thing, and honestly? it's giving "small but crucial" energy. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit — take a message from Tx and put it in the Tx mailbox FIFO 🫶

like, that's literally it. it takes. it puts. it slays.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit (struct fm10k_hw *hw , struct fm10k_mbx_info
*mbx , u16 head );

note the void — this one gives you nothing back, it just does the thing. no return value, no notes, no drama 💀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 💖 like, the actual silicon vibes.
  • mbx — pointer to the mailbox 🌈 this is the mailbox we're working with, bestie.
  • head — the head index of the message 👑 which message are we talking about? this one. this index right here.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the whole plot: this function will dequeue one message from the Tx mailbox FIFO and place it in the Tx switch manager mailbox FIFO for processing by hardware ✨

that's it. one message. from one FIFO to the other FIFO. so the hardware can pick it up and do hardware things with it. the way that it's literally just moving one little message to where the hardware can find it?? iconic. no cap. 🧚

not me stressing that it's one message specifically — the manpage says one, so one it is, bestie 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the kernel file in question: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c 📁 and now, the whole entire family, all 67 of them, in the order the page gives them, because we do not skip anyone in this house:

like I said. everybody. all of them. the whole friend group got invited 🫶

and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 this cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/f... and the page itself is dated October 2026, filed under fm10k_sm_mbx_transmit(9) — go forth and move exactly one message 💖✨💅

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