ntb_transpo...r_client_dev(9)

🦋 ntb_transpo...r_client_dev(9) 🦋

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie — yes the title is literally truncated with ... in it, that's not me being lazy, that's just how it's spelled, iykyk 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ntb_transport_register_client_dev — registers an NTB client device 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ntb_transport_register_client_dev (char *device_name );

like, that's the whole vibe. one function, one char *, int coming back at you 💖

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• device_name — the name of the NTB client device, fr fr. that's the string you're handing over 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what does it do? it registers an NTB client device with the NTB transport layer. that's it, that's the whole personality ✨ no cap, it's giving "one job and it does it slayfully."

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 💖 (iconic, we love a zero)
• -errno code on error 😭 (that's a negative errno value, so like, a failure — read your errno and cope)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c — the source, go read it if you're that girl 🔥
• ntb_transport_unregister_client_dev(9)
• ntb_transport_register_client(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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ok important note bestie: if you register a client dev you're gonna want the *un*register one eventually. balance. symmetry. main character energy 🌸

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and that's the page!! 💜 it lives in ./drivers/ntb and it's dated October 2026 — yeah, the future, we're ahead of schedule, periodt 🎀✨🦋