icssg_ndo_start_xmit(9)

okay bestie, welcome to the icssg_ndo_start_xmit(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one is all about the EMAC transmit function, and it's lowkey iconic in the kernel networking group chat. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

icssg_ndo_start_xmit — EMAC Transmit function ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum netdev_tx icssg_ndo_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb , struct
net_device *ndev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skb — SKB pointer 💅
• ndev — EMAC network adapter 🌈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

called by the system to transmit a packet 📦 — and the move is: we queue the packet in the EMAC hardware transmit queue. that's it, we don't wait for completion! we'll check for TX completion later in emac_tx_complete_packets 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

enum netdev_tx — that's the return type, periodt 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
• emac_xmit_xdp_frame(9)
• emac_run_xdp(9)

and that's the tea ☕ this page is from the Kernel API Manual corner, source/version location ./drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg, dated October 2026, page title icssg_ndo_start_xmit(9) — mwah 💋