rnpgbe_add_adapter(9)

💅 rnpgbe_add_adapter(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for rnpgbe_add_adapter(9) — yes it's a section 9 page, yes that means kernel-land, and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

rnpgbe_add_adapter — literally just adds a netdev for this pci_dev, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int rnpgbe_add_adapter (struct pci_dev *pdev , int board_type );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• pdev — the PCI device information structure, i.e. the little packet of PCI lore you're handing over 🦋
• board_type — the board type. that's it. that's the description. iconic of it honestly 💅

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so rnpgbe_add_adapter initializes a netdev for this pci_dev structure. like, that's its whole job, and it does it.

while it's at it, it also initializes the Bar map, sets up the private structure, and a hardware reset occurs. highkey a lot for one function but okay, we love a multitasker 👑

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, negative errno on failure. no cap, that's the whole return contract 💖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c — go read it, it's giving main character energy 📖

• rnpgbe_open(9)
• rnpgbe_close(9)
• rnpgbe_xmit_frame(9)
• rnpgbe_probe(9)
• rnpgbe_rm_adapter(9)
• rnpgbe_remove(9)
• rnpgbe_dev_shutdown(9)
• rnpgbe_shutdown(9)

that's the whole squad, fr fr 🌈

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and that's the page bestie!! source/version situation is ./drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/r... and it's dated October 2026, so jot that down in your notes app 🍓 mwah, go forth and add those adapters 💜✨