ssh_packet_put(9)

💅 ssh_packet_put(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ssh_packet_put(9) — yes that's the real manual name, I'm not making it up, it's fr fr the section 9 kernel API girlies ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ssh_packet_put — decrement the reference count of a packet, aka the "you can let go now, queen" function 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ssh_packet_put (struct ssh_packet *packet );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no return value, void, she gives nothing back and honestly? iconic 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• packet — the packet whose reference count you're decrementing. like, the actual struct ssh_packet * you're handing over to be un-counted. she's the main character of this whole operation 💖

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🍓 DESCRIPTION 🍓

so here's the vibe check: this function decrements the reference count on your packet.

and if the reference count reaches zero — zero, bestie, absolute rock bottom, no more references left 😭 — then the release callback gets called. and which release callback, you ask? the one specified in the packet's struct ssh_packet_ops, i.e.

packet->ops->release

so yeah, <pink>that's</pink> the callback that fires when the count hits zero 💀 it's giving "last one out turns off the lights" energy, and honestly the release callback ate. 🎀

also like — if you wanna go the other direction, ssh_packet_get is literally the counter-part of this function. they're a matching set, an inseparable duo, iykyk 🌈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file where the magic happens:

• ./drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_packet_layer.c

and the whole friend group, alphabetically-ish, all of them, no cap:

• ssh_ptl_should_drop_ack_packet(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_drop_nak_packet(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_drop_dsq_packet(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_fail_write(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_corrupt_tx_data(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_corrupt_rx_syn(9)
• ssh_ptl_should_corrupt_rx_data(9)
• ssh_packet_get(9)
• ssh_packet_init(9)
• ssh_ctrl_packet_cache_init(9)
• ssh_ctrl_packet_cache_destroy(9)
• ssh_ctrl_packet_alloc(9)
• ssh_ctrl_packet_free(9)
• ssh_ptl_tx_wakeup_packet(9)
• ssh_ptl_tx_start(9)
• ssh_ptl_tx_stop(9)
• ssh_ptl_submit(9)
• ssh_ptl_cancel(9)
• ssh_ptl_rx_start(9)
• ssh_ptl_rx_stop(9)
• ssh_ptl_rx_rcvbuf(9)
• ssh_ptl_shutdown(9)
• ssh_ptl_init(9)
• ssh_ptl_destroy(9)

like okay, that's a lot of ssh_ptl_* functions, but they're all valid, all listed, all slaying in their own way 🦋

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💜 sign-off 💜

this page came to you from the source <purple>./drivers/platform/surface/agg...</purple> (yes, truncated with the little dots, that's how it's printed, don't come for me 🙈) and it's dated October 2026 — future girlie behavior honestly ⭐

okay ily, go decrement some reference counts responsibly, and remember: every packet deserves a put 💖✨🎀