ipack_driver_register(9)

💅 ipack_driver_register — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you found the page for ipack_driver_register(9), the one in the Kernel API Manual — and honestly? It's a little short but it eats. Let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ipack_driver_register — Register a new ipack device driver

like, you're introducing a brand-new ipack device driver to the world. main character energy fr 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ipack_driver_register (struct ipack_driver *edrv , struct module
*owner , const char *name );

three arguments, one int coming back at you. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

okay so here's the thing, and I need you to not freak out:

• edrv — -- undescribed -- 🙈
• owner — -- undescribed -- 😭
• name — -- undescribed -- 💀

yeah. the upstream docs literally say -- undescribed -- for all three. I'm not making that up, I'm not gatekeeping anything from you — that's genuinely all the page gives us. so I'm telling you exactly what it says and nothing more, because inventing descriptions would be lying and we don't do that here 🧚

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Called by a ipack driver to register itself as a driver that can manage ipack devices.

that's it. that's the whole description. the driver shows up, says "hi, I can handle ipack devices," and this function makes it official 💖 it's giving registration day at a new school, except the school is the kernel and the student is a driver. iconic.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

zero on success or error code on failure.

ngl, classic kernel behaviour: 0 means slay, anything else means something went sideways and you get an error code to figure out. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're the whole friend group:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/ipack.h
• struct ipack_device(9)
• struct ipack_driver_ops(9)
• struct ipack_driver(9)
• struct ipack_bus_ops(9)
• struct ipack_bus_device(9)
• ipack_bus_register(9)
• ipack_bus_unregister(9)
• ipack_device_init(9)
• ipack_device_add(9)
• DEFINE_IPACK_DEVICE_TABLE(9)
• IPACK_DEVICE(9)
• ipack_get_carrier(9)

that's the full roster, no cap 🔥

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heads up: this page lives in ./include/linux, and it's dated October 2026 🗓️ so if you're reading this from the past, hi, you're early 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie — ipack_driver_register(9) out 💅✨ mwah 🫶