stmmac_init_dma_engine(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

So bestie, this is stmmac_init_dma_engine(9) straight out of the Kernel API Manual — and it's literally what it says on the tin: DMA init. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int stmmac_init_dma_engine (struct stmmac_priv *priv );

(yes, the spacing is exactly like that, no cap, don't @ me)

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • priv — the driver's private structure. That's it. That's the one parameter. She's low maintenance like that 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so what does she actually do? She inits the DMA — and the way she does it is by invoking the specific MAC/GMAC callback. Main character energy: she doesn't do the work herself, she calls the right specialist. 👑

Some DMA parameters can be passed in from the platform. And if they're not passed? No stress — a default is kept for the MAC or GMAC. Comfortable, sensible, iconic. 🦋

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c

the whole friend group fr fr — every single one of these cuties: 🌈

go read them, iykyk 💀 they're all in the same driver and they all ate 💅

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 🎀 — source/version line was ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro..., dated October 2026, and the page itself is stmmac_init_dma_engine(9). bye pookie, see u in the next manpage 🦋💜

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