hnae_ae_register(9)

💖 hnae_ae_register(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's a little function from the kernel's network stack world, and it's literally just here to do one job: hook an AE engine up to the hnae framework. no drama, no complicated lore. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hnae_ae_register — register a AE engine to hnae framework

like, that's the whole vibe. you got an AE engine? you want it registered into the hnae framework? bestie, this is your function 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int hnae_ae_register (struct hnae_ae_dev *hdev , struct module *owner );

returns an int, takes two args, moves on with its life. iconic behaviour, honestly 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hdev — the hnae ae engine device 🦋 this is the device you're handing over, the main character of the whole operation.
• owner — the module who provides this dev 💜 iykyk, it's the module that's putting this device out into the world.

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⚠️ NOTE ⚠️

the duplicated name will not be checked 😭

fr fr, this function is NOT doing a vibe check on your naming. if you've got two things with the same name, that's on you, not on hnae_ae_register. no cap.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hnae.c — go read the source bestie, it's literally right there 📖
• hnae_ae_unregister(9) — the reverse operation, for when you need to let it go 🦋

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 ngl this one's short and sweet — which is kind of the dream, right? no forty-option wall of flags, just register your engine and go live your life 🌸

signed off with love: this page came from the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/hisilic... and it's dated October 2026 🎀 mark your calendars bestie, that's the version and date situation. mwah 💖