msgb_init(9)

✨ NAME — msgb_init(9) ✨

From the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖: msgb_init initializes the given message buffer struct. That's the whole vibe — setup era, no drama, just getting your message buffer struct ready. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

The signature is literally this, character for character:

void msgb_init (struct msgbuf *msgb , u8 *ptr , size_t cap );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• msgb — the buffer struct to initialize 🫶
• ptr — pointer to the underlying memory by which the buffer will be backed.
• cap — size of the underlying memory.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this is the setup moment: initialize the given message buffer struct using the provided memory as backing. No cap, that's it. ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The squad and the kernel file are all here, bestie:

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_msgb.h
• struct msgbuf(9)
• msgb_bytes_used(9)
• msgb_push_u16(9)
• msgb_push_syn(9)
• msgb_push_buf(9)
• msgb_push_crc(9)
• msgb_push_frame(9)
• msgb_push_ack(9)
• msgb_push_nak(9)
• msgb_push_cmd(9)

Bye bestie! 💅✨ This page comes from the ./drivers/platform/surface/agg... source/version and is dated October 2026 — msgb_init(9), out! 🫶