hwrm_req_timeout(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

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

Okay so this page is literally the glow-up guide for hwrm_req_timeout — the little function that lets you tell a request "hey babe, you've got this much time, no pressure 🫶" before it has to be done. It lives in the Kernel API Manual, and yes, it's as niche and iconic as it sounds.

✨ NAME ✨

hwrm_req_timeout — sets the completion timeout for the request. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void hwrm_req_timeout (struct bnxt *bp , void *req , unsigned int
timeout );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • bp — the driver context. Your main character struct, the one that knows everything. 👑
  • req — the request you're setting the timeout on. The one getting the deadline. ⏰
  • timeout — the timeout, in milliseconds. Not seconds, bestie, milliseconds. Get it right. 💀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what this does is set the timeout that's associated with the request — and that timeout is the one that gets used for subsequent calls to hwrm_req_send. Like, you configure it once here and then it's locked in for whenever you actually send. Slay. 🔥

And why would you even need this? Because some requests are long running — they're the slow ones, the ones that need a little extra grace — and they genuinely require a different timeout than the default. So you come in with this function and you're like "no babe, take your time, I believe in you" and you give it a bigger window. Not me being emotionally supportive of a kernel request 😭🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c — that's where the magic lives, iykyk. ✨

And the whole friend group, fr fr:

Lowkey obsessed with how this whole family of functions just vibes together in one file. Go read the source, it's giving documentation-adjacent. 💜

Okay that's the page!! 🍓 Big sign-off energy: this one came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadco... (yes it's truncated like that, don't come for me) and it's dated October 2026, and the whole thing is filed under hwrm_req_timeout(9) in the Kernel API Manual. Periodt. 💅🧚‍♀️

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