gsm_alloc_mux(9)

💅 gsm_alloc_mux(9) — straight from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, the manual is literally called Kernel API Manual, and the page you opened is gsm_alloc_mux(9). she's short, she's sweet, she's the first domino in the whole mux saga 🎀

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🌸 NAME

gsm_alloc_mux — allocate a mux 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS

struct gsm_mux * gsm_alloc_mux (void );

🫶 ARGUMENTS

• void — no arguments, bestie. not a single one. she takes nothing and gives you a whole mux 🌈

👑 DESCRIPTION

Creates a new mux ready for activation ✨

that's it, that's the whole lore. you call her, she hands you a fresh mux, and it's sitting there all ready-to-be-activated like a new character waiting for her entrance. no cap, this is the main character energy moment of the whole GSM mux pipeline 💅

ngl this page is teeny tiny — but that just means the real chaos lives over in SEE ALSO. buckle up 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO

okay so THIS is the group chat. like, the entire extended friend group of n_gsm. all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/tty/n_gsm.c, and honestly? she's popular. obsessed 🌸

• gsm_fcs_add(9), gsm_fcs_add_block(9), gsm_read_ea(9), gsm_read_ea_val(9), gsm_encode_modem(9), gsm_encode_params(9)
• gsm_register_devices(9), gsm_unregister_devices(9), gsm_print_packet(9), gsm_stuff_frame(9), gsm_send(9), gsm_dlci_clear_queues(9)
• gsm_response(9), gsm_command(9), gsm_data_alloc(9), gsm_send_packet(9), gsm_is_flow_ctrl_msg(9), gsm_data_kick(9)
• __gsm_data_queue(9), gsm_data_queue(9), gsm_dlci_data_output(9), gsm_dlci_data_output_framed(9), gsm_dlci_modem_output(9), gsm_dlci_data_sweep(9), gsm_dlci_data_kick(9)
• gsm_control_command(9), gsm_control_reply(9), gsm_process_modem(9), gsm_process_negotiation(9), gsm_control_modem(9), gsm_control_negotiation(9), gsm_control_rls(9), gsm_control_message(9), gsm_control_response(9), gsm_control_keep_alive(9), gsm_control_transmit(9), gsm_control_retransmit(9), gsm_control_send(9), gsm_control_wait(9)
• gsm_dlci_close(9), gsm_dlci_open(9), gsm_dlci_negotiate(9), gsm_dlci_t1(9), gsm_dlci_begin_open(9), gsm_dlci_set_opening(9), gsm_dlci_set_wait_config(9), gsm_dlci_begin_close(9), gsm_dlci_data(9), gsm_dlci_command(9)
• gsm_kick_timer(9), gsm_dlci_copy_config_values(9), gsm_dlci_config(9), gsm_dlci_alloc(9), gsm_dlci_free(9), gsm_dlci_release(9)
• gsm_queue(9), gsm0_receive_state_check_and_fix(9), gsm0_receive(9), gsm1_receive_state_check_and_fix(9), gsm1_receive(9), gsm_error(9)
• gsm_cleanup_mux(9), gsm_activate_mux(9), gsm_free_mux(9), gsm_free_muxr(9)
• gsmld_output(9), gsmld_write_trigger(9), gsmld_write_task(9), gsmld_attach_gsm(9), gsmld_detach_gsm(9), gsmld_flush_buffer(9), gsmld_close(9), gsmld_open(9), gsmld_write_wakeup(9), gsmld_read(9), gsmld_write(9), gsmld_poll(9)
• gsm_modem_upd_via_data(9), gsm_modem_upd_via_msc(9), gsm_modem_update(9), gsm_wait_modem_change(9)

and where does all this live? the directory ./drivers/tty, periodt 💜

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💀 reminder for the girlies: gsm_alloc_mux gives you a mux ready for activation — that's it, that's the whole claim. don't be out here assuming she activates it for you 🙈

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🧚 and that's the page!! sourced from the ./drivers/tty corner of the tree, dated October 2026, brought to you by the Kernel API Manual — mwah, see u in the next manpage bestie 🍓💖✨