ks8851_rx_pkts(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’– ks8851_rx_pkts β€” the kernel API manual, but make it make sense πŸ’–

okay so bestie, we're in ks8851_rx_pkts(9) territory β€” that's the manual page name, bestie, section 9, kernel API vibes only ✨ this one's all about pulling packets out of the host. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ks8851_rx_pkts β€” receive packets from the host 🫢

πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

void ks8851_rx_pkts (struct ks8851_net *ks , struct sk_buff_head *rxq );

literally just that. void return, no drama, no return value to check, we love a function that doesn't make you guess πŸ’…

πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • ks β€” The device information. this is your main character struct, the whole device's lore lives in here πŸ’–
  • rxq β€” Queue of packets received in this function. yes, the packets land here β€” this is the queue that gets filled up during the call πŸ‘‘

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea β˜• β€” this function gets called from the IRQ work queue when the system detects that there are packets sitting in the receive queue. so the system's like "bestie, we got mail πŸ“¬" and this function is the one that goes and deals with it.

then it literally does two things:

  1. Find out how many packets there are πŸ”
  2. Read them from the FIFO πŸ“–

that's it. that's the whole job. find the count, read 'em out of the FIFO. iconic behaviour honestly, no wasted motion, it's giving efficiency πŸ’…βœ¨

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

the kernel file in question, for the curious girlies who want to read the source:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.c πŸ‘€

and the whole friend group, fr fr β€” go say hi to all of these:

and that's the whole page, bestie πŸ§šοΏ½οΏ½πŸ’œ

cute little sign-off: this one lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel 🌈 and the version/date stamp said October 2026 πŸŽ€ so yeah, fresh off the press β€” ks8851_rx_pkts(9), that's the vibe, iykyk πŸ’–βœ¨

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