ksz_free_buffers(9)

💅 ksz_free_buffers(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 💅

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's about one tiny little cleanup function that lives deep in the driver ecosystem. lowkey unglamorous, but she matters 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

ksz_free_buffers — the girl whose whole job is freeing the buffers used in the descriptors 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ksz_free_buffers (struct dev_info *adapter , struct ksz_desc_info
*desc_info , int direction );

like, that's the whole signature. void return, three args, no drama ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the adapter information structure 🫶 literally the ID card for the adapter.
• desc_info — the descriptor information structure 🦋 the details-about-the-descriptors situation.
• direction — to or from device 🌈 that's the whole spec, bestie, that's what we know about it.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this local routine frees buffers used in the DMA buffers 🧚 no cap, that's the entire personality. she cleans up, she's local, she's focused. main character energy but make it deallocation 🔥

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay so this list is long long, but I'm not skipping a single one, periodt 👑

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c — kernel file, the whole vibe lives here 🍓
• struct ksz_hw_desc(9), struct ksz_sw_desc(9), struct ksz_dma_buf(9), struct ksz_desc(9), struct ksz_desc_info(9), struct ksz_mac_table(9), struct ksz_vlan_table(9), struct ksz_port_mib(9)
• struct ksz_port_cfg(9), struct ksz_switch(9), struct ksz_port_info(9), struct ksz_hw(9), struct ksz_port(9), struct ksz_timer_info(9), struct ksz_shared_mem(9), struct ksz_counter_info(9), struct dev_info(9), struct dev_priv(9)
• hw_turn_on_intr(9), hw_block_intr(9)
• sw_r_table(9), sw_w_table_64(9), sw_w_sta_mac_table(9), sw_r_vlan_table(9)
• port_r_mib_cnt(9), port_r_mib_pkt(9), port_r_cnt(9), port_init_cnt(9), port_cfg(9), port_r8(9), port_r16(9), port_w16(9)
• sw_chk(9), sw_cfg(9), sw_cfg_broad_storm(9), sw_get_broad_storm(9), sw_dis_broad_storm(9), sw_ena_broad_storm(9), sw_init_broad_storm(9)
• hw_cfg_broad_storm(9), sw_dis_prio_rate(9), sw_init_prio_rate(9), sw_dis_diffserv(9), sw_dis_802_1p(9)
• sw_cfg_replace_null_vid(9), sw_cfg_replace_vid(9), sw_cfg_port_based(9), sw_dis_multi_queue(9), sw_init_prio(9)
• port_get_def_vid(9), sw_init_vlan(9), sw_cfg_port_base_vlan(9), sw_set_addr(9), sw_set_global_ctrl(9)
• port_set_stp_state(9), sw_clr_sta_mac_table(9), sw_init_stp(9), sw_block_addr(9)
• hw_r_phy(9), hw_w_phy(9), eeprom_read(9), eeprom_write(9)
• port_get_link_speed(9), port_set_link_speed(9), port_force_link_speed(9)
• hw_chk_wol_pme_status(9), hw_clr_wol_pme_status(9), hw_cfg_wol_pme(9), hw_cfg_wol(9), hw_set_wol_frame(9)
• hw_add_wol_arp(9), hw_add_wol_bcast(9), hw_add_wol_mcast(9), hw_add_wol_ucast(9), hw_enable_wol(9)
• hw_init(9), hw_reset(9), hw_setup(9), hw_setup_intr(9), hw_set_desc_base(9)
• hw_start_rx(9), hw_stop_rx(9), hw_start_tx(9), hw_stop_tx(9), hw_disable(9), hw_enable(9)
• hw_alloc_pkt(9), hw_send_pkt(9), hw_set_addr(9), hw_read_addr(9), hw_clr_multicast(9)
• hw_set_grp_addr(9), hw_set_multicast(9), hw_set_promiscuous(9), sw_enable(9), sw_setup(9)
• ksz_start_timer(9), ksz_stop_timer(9), ksz_alloc_soft_desc(9), ksz_alloc_desc(9), free_dma_buf(9), ksz_init_rx_buffers(9), ksz_alloc_mem(9), ksz_free_desc(9), ksz_free_mem(9)
• send_packet(9), transmit_cleanup(9), tx_done(9), netdev_tx(9), netdev_tx_timeout(9), netdev_intr(9), netdev_close(9), netdev_open(9), netdev_query_statistics(9)
• netdev_set_mac_address(9), netdev_set_rx_mode(9), netdev_ioctl(9), mdio_read(9), mdio_write(9), netdev_get_link_ksettings(9), netdev_set_link_ksettings(9), netdev_nway_reset(9), netdev_get_link(9)
• netdev_get_drvinfo(9), netdev_get_regs_len(9), netdev_get_regs(9), netdev_get_wol(9), netdev_set_wol(9), netdev_get_msglevel(9), netdev_set_msglevel(9)
• netdev_get_eeprom_len(9), netdev_get_eeprom(9), netdev_set_eeprom(9), netdev_get_pauseparam(9), netdev_set_pauseparam(9), netdev_get_ringparam(9)
• netdev_get_strings(9), netdev_get_sset_count(9), netdev_get_ethtool_stats(9), netdev_set_features(9), dev_monitor(9), netdev_init(9)

iykyk 💀 that's a lot of see-alsos and every single one of them is here, you're welcome 🫶

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ngl bestie, this page is short but she's honest. read the whole SEE ALSO list before you @ me 🙈

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🌷 that's the whole page!! sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel, dated October 2026, and yes the original header and footer said ksz_free_buffers(9) twice because she likes her symmetry 💖 slay, go free those buffers, ily ⭐🎀