nps_enet_open(9)

NAME 💖 — nps_enet_open

okay bestie, this page is literally all about nps_enet_open — the function that opens the network device ✨. It lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving “let’s get this ENET device up and running” energy fr fr.

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SYNOPSIS 🎀

s32 nps_enet_open (struct net_device *ndev );

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ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ndev — a pointer to the network device. That’s the main character here, no cap.

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RETURN 🌸

Returns 0 on success, or a non-zero error value on failure. So yeah, 0 is the slay outcome, anything else is the “uh oh” outcome 😭.

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DESCRIPTION 💅

This function does three iconic things: it sets the MAC address, it requests and enables an IRQ for the ENET device, and it starts the Tx queue. Periodt. That’s the whole vibe of what it handles 🔥.

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SEE ALSO 👑

• the Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c
• nps_enet_poll(9)
• nps_enet_irq_handler(9)
• nps_enet_hw_reset(9)
• nps_enet_set_mac_address(9)
• nps_enet_set_rx_mode(9)
• nps_enet_stop(9)
• nps_enet_start_xmit(9)

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 this cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip, dated October 2026, and it’s part of the Kernel API Manual. mwah 💋✨