ntb_transpo...ister_client(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ntb_transport_register_client — bestie, this is the one that registers an NTB client driver 💅

(and yes, the whole vibe of this page lives in the Kernel API Manual — we're in the kernel today, no cap)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ntb_transport_register_client (struct ntb_transport_client *drv );

okay so like… that's the whole call. one function, one pointer, one int coming back at you 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• drv — the NTB client driver you want to get registered, like it's getting added to the group chat 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this function registers an NTB client driver with the NTB transport layer. that's it, that's the whole plot. it's giving "simple, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin" ✨

the way that this is literally the entry point where your driver officially becomes part of the NTB transport situation — obsessed 🧚

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• An appropriate -ERRNO error value on error 😭
• or zero for success 🎉 (slay, we love a zero)

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c — go read the source bestie, it's all in there 📖

• ntb_transport_unregister_client_dev(9)
• ntb_transport_register_client_dev(9)
• ntb_transport_unregister_client(9)
• ntb_transport_create_queue(9)
• ntb_transport_free_queue(9)
• ntb_transport_rx_remove(9)
• ntb_transport_rx_enqueue(9)
• ntb_transport_tx_enqueue(9)
• ntb_transport_link_up(9)
• ntb_transport_link_down(9)
• ntb_transport_link_query(9)
• ntb_transport_qp_num(9)
• ntb_transport_max_size(9)

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💖 that's the whole page, and yes you should read the friends too — they're all in the same friend group, iykyk

okay bye bestie, this one came straight out of ./drivers/ntb, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ntb_transpo...ister_client(9) 🎀✨🦋