sxgbe_free_rx_buffers(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 sxgbe_free_rx_buffers(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in kernel land today, hold my iced coffee 🧊, this one's a cleanup queen and she's here to free things. The way that name literally says it: sxgbe_free_rx_buffers — she frees what sxgbe_init_rx_buffers() allocated. Iconic matched set, fr fr.

✨ NAME ✨

sxgbe_free_rx_buffers — free what sxgbe_init_rx_buffers() allocated 🫶

Like, she's the undo button. The cleanup crew. The "you made this mess, now let's tidy" bestie. No cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void sxgbe_free_rx_buffers (struct net_device *dev , struct
sxgbe_rx_norm_desc *p , int i , unsigned int dma_buf_sz , struct
sxgbe_rx_queue *rx_ring );

five arguments, zero return value, all vibes 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • dev — net device structure 🖥️ the whole network-device situation, she's the main character here
  • p — dec pointer (yes, "dec pointer", that's what the page says, we don't ask questions, we just pass it 😭)
  • i — index 🔢 which one we're looking at, bestie
  • dma_buf_sz — size 📏 the size, as sizes do
  • rx_ring — ring to be freed 🌈 that's the actual ring getting released back into the wild

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so, what does she do? The manual is extremely chill about it and says: this function initializes the DMA RX descriptor.

lowkey that's exactly what the page says — a function named "free" whose description says "initializes". Not me side-eyeing it 🙈 but I'm not gonna change the facts, that's the text, and the text is sacred.

What we do know for sure from the NAME section: she frees what sxgbe_init_rx_buffers() allocated. That's the whole assignment. Clean up after your init, bestie, always. ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group 💖 — kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c plus every single one of these:

no skips, no "and friends", we list everyone queen 👑

alright bestie, that's the page 🏁 — brought to you by the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung..., dated October 2026, and she's out here doing sxgbe_free_rx_buffers(9) things. go free those buffers, slay, and remember: whoever allocates, deallocates 💅✨🍓

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