if_usb_send_fw_pkt(9)

✨ if_usb_send_fw_pkt(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual 💅 this one's a function page, and yes the title up top is if_usb_send_fw_pkt(9) — we're in section 9, the deep magic section, iykyk 🧚

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🌸 NAME 🌸

if_usb_send_fw_pkt — literally the function that downloads the FW 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int if_usb_send_fw_pkt (struct if_usb_card *cardp );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cardp — a pointer to if_usb_card 💖 (the card struct, the main character of this whole operation)

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

returns 0 👑

lowkey the most chill return value in the game. it's giving "i did the thing and i'm telling you about it."

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• the kernel file itself, living at ./drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas_tf/if_usb.c 📁
• if_usb_write_bulk_callback(9)
• if_usb_free(9)
• if_usb_probe(9)
• if_usb_disconnect(9)
• usb_tx_block(9)
• if_usb_receive(9)
• if_usb_host_to_card(9)
• if_usb_issue_boot_command(9)
• check_fwfile_format(9)

that's the whole friend group, go read all of them, they ate 🔥

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 source is that ./drivers/net/wireless/marvell... path and it's dated October 2026 — so mark your calendars, mwah 💜