stmmac_release(9)

🎀 stmmac_release(9) 🎀

okay so this is stmmac_release(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, the actual kernel manual, we're reading the good stuff today 💅

✨ NAME ✨

stmmac_release — the close entry point of the driver 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int stmmac_release (struct net_device *dev );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• dev — device pointer. that's it, that's the whole argument. one (1) pointer to the device, she's low maintenance 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So like… this is the stop entry point of the driver. that's the vibe. stmmac_release is literally the function that shows up when the driver is like "okay we're closing up shop ✨" — the counterpart energy to the open entry point, except this one is the goodbye. main character exit moment, no cap 👑

ngl the description in the original is three words long and honestly? iconic. she said "stop entry point of the driver" and clocked out 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where the page goes absolutely feral with cross-references — every single one of these is a real kernel doc page and yes, you're gonna need them 🧚

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c — the source file, literally the whole codebase neighborhood bestie
• stmmac_set_clk_tx_rate(9)
• stmmac_axi_blen_to_mask(9)
• stmmac_verify_args(9)
• stmmac_disable_all_queues(9)
• stmmac_enable_all_queues(9)
• stmmac_rx_dirty(9)
• stmmac_try_to_start_sw_lpi(9)
• stmmac_stop_sw_lpi(9)
• stmmac_eee_ctrl_timer(9)
• stmmac_hwtstamp_set(9)
• stmmac_hwtstamp_get(9)
• stmmac_init_tstamp_counter(9)
• stmmac_init_timestamping(9)
• stmmac_mac_flow_ctrl(9)
• stmmac_check_pcs_mode(9)
• stmmac_init_phy(9)
• stmmac_clear_rx_descriptors(9)
• stmmac_clear_tx_descriptors(9)
• stmmac_clear_descriptors(9)
• stmmac_init_rx_buffers(9)
• stmmac_free_rx_buffer(9)
• stmmac_free_tx_buffer(9)
• dma_free_rx_skbufs(9)
• dma_free_rx_xskbufs(9)
• __init_dma_rx_desc_rings(9)
• __init_dma_tx_desc_rings(9)
• init_dma_desc_rings(9)
• dma_free_tx_skbufs(9)
• stmmac_free_tx_skbufs(9)
• __free_dma_rx_desc_resources(9)
• __free_dma_tx_desc_resources(9)
• __alloc_dma_rx_desc_resources(9)
• __alloc_dma_tx_desc_resources(9)
• alloc_dma_desc_resources(9)
• free_dma_desc_resources(9)
• stmmac_mac_enable_rx_queues(9)
• stmmac_start_rx_dma(9)
• stmmac_start_tx_dma(9)
• stmmac_stop_rx_dma(9)
• stmmac_stop_tx_dma(9)
• stmmac_start_all_dma(9)
• stmmac_stop_all_dma(9)
• stmmac_dma_operation_mode(9)
• stmmac_tx_clean(9)
• stmmac_tx_err(9)
• stmmac_set_dma_operation_mode(9)
• stmmac_dma_interrupt(9)
• stmmac_mmc_setup(9)
• stmmac_get_hw_features(9)
• stmmac_check_ether_addr(9)
• stmmac_init_dma_engine(9)
• stmmac_tx_timer(9)
• stmmac_init_coalesce(9)
• stmmac_set_tx_queue_weight(9)
• stmmac_configure_cbs(9)
• stmmac_rx_queue_dma_chan_map(9)
• stmmac_mac_config_rx_queues_prio(9)
• stmmac_mac_config_tx_queues_prio(9)
• stmmac_mac_config_rx_queues_routing(9)
• stmmac_mtl_configuration(9)
• stmmac_hw_setup(9)
• stmmac_setup_dma_desc(9)
• __stmmac_open(9)
• stmmac_tso_allocator(9)
• stmmac_tso_xmit(9)
• stmmac_has_ip_ethertype(9)
• stmmac_xmit(9)
• stmmac_rx_refill(9)
• stmmac_rx(9)
• stmmac_tx_timeout(9)
• stmmac_set_rx_mode(9)
• stmmac_change_mtu(9)
• stmmac_interrupt(9)
• stmmac_ioctl(9)
• stmmac_hw_init(9)
• stmmac_dvr_probe(9)
• stmmac_dvr_remove(9)
• stmmac_suspend(9)
• stmmac_reset_queues_param(9)
• stmmac_resume(9)

that's eighty (80) cross-references bestie, a whole friend group 😭 go read __stmmac_open(9) next, she's the sister function and she ate 💅

🌸 okay that's the whole page!! it came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro... and the version stamp says October 2026 — so like, future vibes, we stan a timeless manual page ✨ mwah, go close some drivers 💖