netdev_tx(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, welcome to the netdev_tx(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. It's giving short-and-iconic.

netdev_tx — send out packet. That's the whole assignment. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

netdev_tx_t netdev_tx (struct sk_buff *skb , struct net_device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skb — Socket buffer. That's the socket buffer right there, no cap.
• dev — Network device. And this is the network device in question. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this function is used by the upper network layer to send out a packet. That's the whole plot, bestie. 🌈

Return 0 if successful; otherwise an error code indicating failure. Periodt. If it's not 0, it's giving "something went wrong" energy. 😭

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c. The full extended universe of structs and functions is right here — yes, all of them, don't skip a single one, iykyk:

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_buffers(9)
ksz_free_mem(9)
send_packet(9)
transmit_cleanup(9)
tx_done(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)

Big kiss and a sparkle: source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel, date is October 2026, and this was netdev_tx(9). It ate, bestie. 💅✨🎀