pch_gbe_xmit_frame(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pch_gbe_xmit_frame(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes, that's the manual name, and yes, you're about to learn how a packet actually gets sent. this one's short but iconic, ngl 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pch_gbe_xmit_frame — Packet transmitting start 🚀

like, it's the function that kicks off the whole "send this packet out into the world" moment. main character energy fr.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

netdev_tx_t pch_gbe_xmit_frame (struct sk_buff *skb , struct net_device
       *netdev );

two args, both pointers, both important. we love a clean signature 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • skb — the Socket buffer structure 💌 (the packet itself basically — the little guy being sent)
  • netdev — the Network interface device structure 🌐 (the NIC that's gonna do the sending)

💖 RETURN 💖

it hands you back a netdev_tx_t, and there are exactly two moods:

  • NETDEV_TX_OK — Normal end ✅ slay, the packet's on its way
  • NETDEV_TX_BUSY — Error end 💀 not great, the driver's busy / couldn't take it
ngl, "BUSY" is not the vibe you want, but at least it's honest about it 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c — that's where the magic lives, go read it iykyk 📖

and here's the whole extended friend group, no cap, every single one of them:

okay that's the entire roster and honestly? obsessed 💜

🧚 that's the whole page bestie, go send some packets, ily, bye 💅✨

and for the credits portion — this cutie came from source ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-sem... (yes it's truncated like that in the original, don't @ me 🙈) and it's dated October 2026 ⭐🌈 periodt.

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