release_rx_pools(9)

💅 release_rx_pools(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to the release_rx_pools page from the kernel API manual (yes, the (9) one, that's the section, we love a section number) ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

release_rx_pools — literally just release any rx pools attached to @adapter. that's the whole job. she's a one-task queen 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void release_rx_pools (struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter );

like, returns nothing (void), takes exactly one thing. minimal. iconic. no notes 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• adapter — the ibmvnic adapter. that's it, that's the argument. she's the ibmvnic adapter, your main character of the call 🫶

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so the whole vibe here is: it releases any rx pools that are attached to @adapter.

and the bestie-coded part? it's safe to call this multiple times — even if no pools are attached at all. lowkey the most chill function in the file, no cap. call it once, call it five times, call it when there's literally nothing to release, she does not care 😌✨

fr fr, the "safe to call multiple times even if no pools are attached" line is doing so much work here — that's the multi-call safety guarantee, don't lose it 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c — go read the source, bestie, it's right there 📖
• ibmvnic_wait_for_completion(9)
• reuse_ltb(9)
• alloc_long_term_buff(9)
• free_ltb_set(9)
• alloc_ltb_set(9)
• map_rxpool_buf_to_ltb(9)
• map_txpool_buf_to_ltb(9)
• reuse_rx_pools(9)
• init_rx_pools(9)
• release_tx_pools(9)
• reuse_tx_pools(9)
• init_tx_pools(9)
• get_hdr_lens(9)
• create_hdr_descs(9)
• build_hdr_descs_arr(9)
• do_passive_init(9)

like the entire ltb/rx/tx pool friend group is linked here, squad goals honestly 🧚💜

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and that's the page!! 💖 this one's brought to you by ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm (the source) and October 2026 (the date), so jot that down in your notes app bestie, mwah 🎀🦋✨