pch_gbe_free_tx_resources(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pch_gbe_free_tx_resources — a.k.a. the Kernel API Manual page for pch_gbe_free_tx_resources(9)

Hiii bestie 🫶 okay so this is the man page for pch_gbe_free_tx_resources(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the "ok we're done here, clean up your mess" function for the transmit side of things. Short page, big main character energy. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pch_gbe_free_tx_resources — Free Tx Resources 💸

That's it. That's the whole pitch. It frees the Tx resources. Iconic, minimal, no notes.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void pch_gbe_free_tx_resources (struct pch_gbe_adapter *adapter , struct
pch_gbe_tx_ring *tx_ring );

So it returns void, meaning it doesn't hand you back a value — it just does the thing and dips 😌. Two args, both pointers, both very much required. No cap.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • adapter — the board private structure 🧚 like, the big ol' per-board data blob that knows everything about this NIC. It's giving "the group chat admin".
  • tx_ring — the Tx descriptor ring for a specific queue 💫 so like, not all the queues, just this one ring's resources. Each queue's got its own, and this is you handing that one its walking papers.
Heads up bestie: it's per-queue. You're freeing this ring, not the whole world. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Okay this list is LONG, like genuinely, so buckle up 💀 — but every single one is here, exactly as written, because we do NOT skip entries in this house:

Like I said. Long. But we ate, no crumbs left behind 🍓

Also peep pch_gbe_setup_tx_resources(9) up there — that's this function's opposite number. Setup and free, they're literally the duo of all time 🫶

🌈 sign-off 🌈

Source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-sem... (yes it's truncated in the footer, that's not me being lazy, that's canon 💀), dated October 2026, and it's the pch_gbe_free_tx_resources(9) page. Bestie, you're now un-stuck. Go free those Tx resources 💜✨

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