remove_mac_addr(9)

💅 remove_mac_addr(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to remove_mac_addr(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes the whole vibe is kernel API, and you're gonna slay this one fr fr 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

remove_mac_addr — the lil function that removes a mac address from a network device 💖 like it's literally its whole job and it ate

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int remove_mac_addr (struct net_device *netdev , const u8 *addr );

look at her. iconic signature. no notes. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• netdev — the network device, your main character struct 💅
• addr — the mac address you wanna remove, bye bestie 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea ☕ — it hands you back 0 for Success, and a negative value for Failure. that's it, that's the whole description, and honestly? she's lowkey efficient. not me being obsessed with a return value 😭

ngl bestie, remember it: 0 = Success ✨, negative = Failure 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_main.c — go read it, iykyk 🧚
• create_txqs(9)
• free_txqs(9)
• create_rxqs(9)
• free_rxqs(9)
• change_mac_addr(9)
• add_mac_addr(9)
• link_status_event_handler(9)
• nic_dev_init(9)

the whole squad fr fr — go say hi to all of them 🫶⭐

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and that's the page bestie!! ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ this adorable lil number lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and it's dated October 2026, and it signs off as remove_mac_addr(9) — periodt 💖🎀