fman_bind(9)

💖 fman_bind(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie 💖

Okay so picture this: it's a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, that's the manual name, we're fancy here ✨) and it's about binding to an FMan device. That's it, that's the whole vibe. Let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fman_bind —

Not me leaving this blank but fr fr the original page does exactly that 😭 the name line is literally just fman_bind followed by a dash and then nothing. We respect the blank space. The mystery. The main character energy of an empty description. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct fman * fman_bind (struct device *fm_dev );

That's the whole signature, no cap — it takes a struct device * and hands you back a struct fman *. Simple. Iconic. Slay. 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• fm_dev — FMan OF device pointer. That's the one and only thing you pass in, bestie. Just the pointer to the FMan OF device. Nothing else. One argument. We love a low-effort queen 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Bind to a specific FMan device. That's the whole job. You point it at an FMan device and it binds to it, periodt. 🔥

But listen — the vibe check here is real:

Allowed only after the port was created. Like, do not come at this function before the port exists, okay? It's giving "you must be this tall to ride" and the height requirement is the port already being created. Respect the order of operations, bestie 😤💀

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

A pointer to the FMan device. That's it — you get back a struct fman * pointing at the FMan device. Hand it over, we're obsessed 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file that's the source of truth for all of this lives right here:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman.c

And here's the whole friend group of related functions, all of them, every single one, no skipping:

• fman_register_intr(9)
• fman_unregister_intr(9)
• fman_set_port_params(9)
• fman_reset_mac(9)
• fman_set_mac_max_frame(9)
• fman_get_clock_freq(9)
• fman_get_bmi_max_fifo_size(9)
• fman_get_revision(9)
• fman_get_qman_channel_id(9)
• fman_get_mem_region(9)
• fman_get_max_frm(9)
• fman_get_rx_extra_headroom(9)

Go read them all, iykyk 📚🧚

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Sign-off time, bestie 🎀

This page is from ./drivers/net/ethernet/freesca... (that's the truncated source/version vibe, she's mysterious) and it's dated October 2026 — and obviously it's the fman_bind(9) page, duh. Now go bind some FMan devices responsibly, mwah 💋💖🌸