ks8851_net_stop(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ks8851_net_stop — close network device. Okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for ks8851_net_stop(9), and yes bestie, we are literally about to close a network device. Iconic behavior only. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ks8851_net_stop (struct net_device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device being closed. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is the close-down moment: it’s called to close down a network device that has been active. Cancel any work, then shutdown the RX and TX process. No cap — that’s the whole vibe check. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

This is the friend group, fr fr:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.c 🍓
• ks8851_lock(9)
• ks8851_unlock(9)
• ks8851_wrreg16(9)
• ks8851_rdreg16(9)
• ks8851_soft_reset(9)
• ks8851_set_powermode(9)
• ks8851_write_mac_addr(9)
• ks8851_read_mac_addr(9)
• ks8851_init_mac(9)
• ks8851_rx_pkts(9)
• ks8851_irq(9)
• ks8851_flush_tx_work(9)
• ks8851_net_open(9)
• ks8851_start_xmit(9)
• ks8851_rxctrl_work(9)
• ks8851_eeprom_claim(9)
• ks8851_eeprom_release(9)
• ks8851_phy_reg(9)
• ks8851_phy_read(9)
• ks8851_read_selftest(9)

Source/version vibe: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel · date: October 2026 · manual: ks8851_net_stop(9) — byeee bestie, go touch some packets! 💖🌈