nfc_allocate_device(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ nfc_allocate_device ✨

Okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this is the page for nfc_allocate_device(9), and honestly it's giving "birth of an NFC device" energy. Let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

nfc_allocate_device — allocate a new nfc device 🦋

Like, you're literally bringing a whole new NFC device into existence. Main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct nfc_dev * nfc_allocate_device (const struct nfc_ops *ops , u32
supported_protocols , int tx_headroom , int tx_tailroom );

That's the whole signature, no cap. Four arguments, one struct nfc_dev * coming back at you 💅

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • ops — device operations. It's the const struct nfc_ops * — all the behaviour your device is gonna have 💫
  • supported_protocols — NFC protocols supported by the device. A u32 bitmask situation, iykyk 🔥
  • tx_headroom — reserved space at beginning of skb 🌸
  • tx_tailroom — reserved space at end of skb 🦋

Headroom at the front, tailroom at the back, and the payload living its best life in the middle. Periodt ✨

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

Kernel file ./net/nfc/core.c — that's where the magic lives, bestie 🧚

And the whole friend group of related calls:

Go read them all, they're iconic 👑

Lowkey a reminder from your girl: these entries are shorthand in this preview — nfc_unregister_rfkill(9) is listed here as-is even though the surrounding pair is about registering/unregistering. Keep the exact reference, don't "fix" it, bestie 🙈

Sign-off time! 💖 This page lives under ./net/nfc, and the manual says October 2026 🎀 — so congratulations to you and to future-you reading this in 2026, slay ⭐🌸💅

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