lbs_get_channel(9)

💖 lbs_get_channel(9) — like, the radio channel getter 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual section 9, and today's main character is lbs_get_channel 🎀 she's a tiny lil function from the libertas wireless driver and honestly? she just wants to know what channel the radio's on. no drama, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

lbs_get_channel — get the radio channel 📻 like literally just fetch which channel the radio is tuned to, that's the whole vibe

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int lbs_get_channel (struct lbs_private *priv );

that's it. one argument, one int coming back, chef's kiss 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• priv — a pointer to struct lbs_private 💜 this is the driver's private state struct, and yeah we need it, can't get a channel out of thin air bestie

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

the channel on success — iconic, we love a successful return 🎉

error on failure 😭 and that's it, that's the whole contract, no extra lore

ngl always vibe-check your return value before you trust it, okay? this one has two modes: channel, or error. periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so here's the whole friend group, the entire libertas cmd.c squad, all referenced from the kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cmd.c — go say hi:

• lbs_cmd_copyback(9)
• lbs_cmd_async_callback(9)
• is_command_allowed_in_ps(9)
• lbs_update_hw_spec(9)
• lbs_set_ps_mode(9)
• lbs_set_snmp_mib(9)
• lbs_get_tx_power(9)
• lbs_set_monitor_mode(9)
• lbs_set_channel(9)
• lbs_get_rssi(9)
• lbs_set_11d_domain_info(9)
• lbs_get_reg(9)
• lbs_set_reg(9)
• lbs_allocate_cmd_buffer(9)
• lbs_free_cmd_buffer(9)
• lbs_get_free_cmd_node(9)
• lbs_execute_next_command(9)
• lbs_ps_confirm_sleep(9)

iykyk 👀

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and that's the page babes 💖 source is ./drivers/net/wireless/marvell... and this lil slice of kernel lore is dated October 2026, filed under lbs_get_channel(9) — go get that channel, queen 🧚‍♀️✨🫶