ieee802154_register_hw(9)

✨ ieee802154_register_hw(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's about ieee802154_register_hw(9), aka "make the hardware official" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ieee802154_register_hw — Register hardware device 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ieee802154_register_hw (struct ieee802154_hw *hw );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — the device you wanna register, exactly as it came back from ieee802154_alloc_hw. no substitutions, no knockoffs, gotta be the real one 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie 🍵 — you must call this function before any other functions in mac802154. like, it's the first domino, the main character moment, the vibe-setter. no skipping ahead, no cap.

also lowkey important: before a hardware can actually be registered, you need to fill in the contained wpan_phy's information first. do that prep work or it's giving unfinished homework 😭

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success — slay 💅✨
• an error code otherwise — not slay, but at least you know 🙈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./include/net/mac802154.h enum:

• ieee802154_hw_addr_filt_flags(9)
• struct ieee802154_hw_addr_filt(9)
• struct ieee802154_hw(9)
• enum ieee802154_hw_flags(9)
• ieee802154_get_fc_from_skb(9)
• ieee802154_skb_dst_pan(9)
• ieee802154_skb_src_pan(9)
• ieee802154_skb_is_intra_pan_addressing(9)
• ieee802154_be64_to_le64(9)
• ieee802154_le64_to_be64(9)
• ieee802154_le16_to_be16(9)
• ieee802154_be16_to_le16(9)
• ieee802154_alloc_hw(9)
• ieee802154_free_hw(9)
• ieee802154_unregister_hw(9)
• ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(9)
• ieee802154_xmit_complete(9)
• ieee802154_xmit_error(9)
• ieee802154_xmit_hw_error(9)

like, that's the whole friend group right there 👑 go read them too, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie — sourced from ./include/net, dated October 2026, and officially filed under ieee802154_register_hw(9) 🎀 byeee, go register that hardware 💜