gelic_card_reset_chain(9)

💅 gelic_card_reset_chain(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, you're reading gelic_card_reset_chain(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? this one's short but it's a whole vibe reset. literally. let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

gelic_card_reset_chain — resets the status of a descriptor chain, no cap 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void gelic_card_reset_chain (struct gelic_card *card , struct
gelic_descr_chain *chain , struct gelic_descr *start_descr );

she takes three args and returns void. lowkey iconic of her 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• card — the card structure. your main character struct, fr fr 👑
• chain — the address of the chain. yes, the address, not the chain itself, don't come for me 🙈
• start_descr — the address of the descriptor array. the starting point, the origin story, the place where it all begins 🌈

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does she actually do? she resets the status of the dma descriptors back to ready state (fresh start energy, we love a clean slate 💖) and then she re-initializes the hardware chain so it's all set for later use. it's giving "reset and reinit" and honestly? she ate ⭐

the way that this is literally just cleanup + prep so the chain works again later — obsessed with the efficiency ngl.

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

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

and now the whole friend group, in order, every single one of them, because we don't do half-finished lists in this house 💜:

• gelic_descr_get_status(9)
• gelic_card_disable_txdmac(9)
• gelic_card_enable_rxdmac(9)
• gelic_card_disable_rxdmac(9)
• gelic_descr_set_status(9)
• gelic_card_free_chain(9)
• gelic_card_init_chain(9)
• gelic_descr_prepare_rx(9)
• gelic_card_release_rx_chain(9)
• gelic_card_fill_rx_chain(9)
• gelic_card_alloc_rx_skbs(9)
• gelic_descr_release_tx(9)
• gelic_card_release_tx_chain(9)
• gelic_net_set_multi(9)
• gelic_net_stop(9)
• gelic_card_get_next_tx_descr(9)
• gelic_descr_set_tx_cmdstat(9)
• gelic_descr_prepare_tx(9)
• gelic_card_kick_txdma(9)
• gelic_net_xmit(9)
• gelic_net_pass_skb_up(9)
• gelic_card_decode_one_descr(9)
• gelic_net_poll(9)
• gelic_net_poll_controller(9)
• gelic_net_open(9)
• gelic_net_tx_timeout_task(9)
• gelic_net_tx_timeout(9)
• gelic_ether_setup_netdev_ops(9)
• gelic_net_setup_netdev(9)
• gelic_alloc_card_net(9)

like, that's the entire squad, go read them all, iykyk 😭🔥

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and that's the whole page bestie! sign-off time 🧚 source path is ./drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba and this whole read was dated October 2026 — periodt, go reset some chains 💅💖