pch_gbe_stop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pch_gbe_stop — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one's a lil function called pch_gbe_stop. It's giving "turn the lights off on a network interface" energy, and honestly? Iconic. Let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

pch_gbe_stop — disables a network interface 🫶 like, it literally shuts the whole thing down. bye bestie 👋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int pch_gbe_stop (struct net_device *netdev );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one arg, returns an int, periodt 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • netdev — the network interface device structure 🧚 this is the actual device thingy we're about to put to sleep. it's a struct net_device *, so it's a pointer to the device struct, no cap.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 — successfully 💖 that's the success code, that's the good ending, that's the slay.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so there's a whole friend group here, and honestly the way this function has SO many mutuals?? main character energy fr fr. the kernel file lives at:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c 🌈

and here's the whole crew, not a single one skipped because we do NOT do that here 🫶

like, that's 54 functions. FIFTY-FOUR. the lore is deep 😭🔥

ngl bestie, the whole page is literally one function, one arg, one return value. the drama is in the SEE ALSO. and we respect it 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 from ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-sem... (yes the path got cut off, the terminal said what it said 💅) dated October 2026, and the title is pch_gbe_stop(9) — iykyk 🌈✨ go off, kernel queen 👑

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