gelic_net_xmit(9)

🦋 gelic_net_xmit — the gelic_net_xmit(9) kernel API page, bestie edition 🦋

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about one function: gelic_net_xmit. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "small but mighty" energy, so let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

gelic_net_xmit — transmits a frame over the device</p> 🎀 that's it, that's the whole job. queen behaviour honestly 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

netdev_tx_t gelic_net_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb , struct net_device
      *netdev );

so like, she takes two things and she hands you back a netdev_tx_t. simple as that, no cap 🫶

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• skb — the packet to send out 📦✨ this is the actual payload, the whole reason we're here
• netdev — the interface device structure 🖧 the network device chillin' behind it all

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, and it's genuinely only one line of tea: returns NETDEV_TX_OK on success, NETDEV_TX_BUSY on failure 💀

like, that's the entire description. NETDEV_TX_OK = slayed, the frame went out. NETDEV_TX_BUSY = not slayed, it was busy. iconic minimalism, honestly 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the kernel file this all lives in is:

./drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c

and here's the whole friend group, all (9) man pages, all linked, all valid — collect them like little stickers 🍓:

• 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_reset_chain(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_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)

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as always bestie, this page is just the vibe check — the actual behaviour lives in the source, so read the code before you trust anything 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! footer vibes for the sign-off: this one lives under ./drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba, dated October 2026, and it's page gelic_net_xmit(9) 💜 mwah, go read the rest of the gelic family, ily, bye 🧚‍♀️✨