gelic_card_decode_one_descr(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 gelic_card_decode_one_descr 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ today we're looking at gelic_card_decode_one_descr(9) and honestly? it's giving "small function, big job." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gelic_card_decode_one_descr — processes an rx descriptor 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int gelic_card_decode_one_descr (struct gelic_card *card );

(yeah the spacing is exactly like that, don't come for me 😭)

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • card — the card structure. that's the whole argument, no cap 🦋

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the return values are the main character energy here:

  • returns 1 if a packet has been sent to the stack 🔥 slay
  • returns -ENOMEM on skb alloc failure 😭 rip
  • otherwise 0 💀

and what does it actually do? it processes an rx descriptor by iommu-unmapping the data buffer and passing the packet up to the stack. periodt. that's the vibe check and it passed ✅

not me being obsessed with a function that just unmaps a buffer and sends a packet upstairs — but here we are 💜

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the kernel file is literally right here: ./drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c 📁

and here's the whole friend group, all (9) besties:

and that's the whole page bestie 🌈 this one came from the lovely people at ./drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba, dated October 2026, and we are officially done here. bye ily, go read your descriptors 💜🎀

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