octep_ctrl_..._fw_messages(9)

🦋 octep_ctrl_net_recv_fw_messages — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the glow-up of <pink>octep_ctrl_..._fw_messages(9)</pink> 💅 this is a page out of the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a little baddie of a function. it polls for firmware messages and then processes them. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

octep_ctrl_net_recv_fw_messages — literally just polls for firmware messages and processes them 💖

like… it checks if the firmware left you a little note 🎀 and then deals with it. main character energy fr fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void octep_ctrl_net_recv_fw_messages (struct octep_device *oct );

that's it, that's the whole signature 🫶 notice the void — this one doesn't hand anything back, it just does the thing and leaves. iconic behaviour honestly.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• oct — a non-null pointer to struct octep_device. yep, it has to be non-null, that's the whole requirement 😭 give it your device struct and let it cook.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

hiii so if you wanna go down the rabbit hole 🐇🕳️ the actual kernel file lives right here:

./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_ctrl_net.h

and here's the whole friend group 👑 — every single one of these has a (9) manpage, go hang out with them:

• octep_ctrl_net_init(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_link_status(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_link_status(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_rx_state(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_mac_addr(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_mac_addr(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_mtu(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_mtu(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_if_stats(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_link_info(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_link_info(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_get_info(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_dev_remove(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_set_offloads(9)
• octep_ctrl_net_uninit(9)

get you a function that can do both 💜 iykyk.

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and that's the page bestie!! 🦋 this lil cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and it's dated October 2026 — shoutout to whoever's keeping the Kernel API Manual looking this good, mwah 😘