velocity_free_rd_ring(9)

💅 velocity_free_rd_ring(9) — like, the whole Kernel API Manual vibe 🎀

okay bestie, you know how a whole family of kernel API pages exists and this one lives in the Kernel API Manual? yeah. that's the manual name, we're not doing a whole title line about it. sit down, hydrate, and let's get into it 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

velocity_free_rd_ring — free receive ring 🦋

like. it frees the ring. the receive ring. that's the whole personality, and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void velocity_free_rd_ring (struct velocity_info *vptr );

returns nothing, takes one (1) pointer, no notes. she's lowkey minimal.

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• vptr — the velocity we're cleaning up, aka the struct velocity_info * that's about to get its glow-up-into-nothing. this is the velocity to clean up, no cap.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's what's tea: this function frees the receive buffers for each ring slot — every single one, no skipping, we do not leave stragglers 😭 — and it also frees any attached socket buffers that need to go away.

that's it. that's the function. clean sleeves, no drama, all the memory goes home. periodt. 👑

ngl, "each ring slot" means each one, bestie. this is not a "free some of it and hope" situation. it's giving thorough. it's giving responsible. it's giving main character energy in a cleanup function 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group shows up, fr fr — take a sip of water before you scroll this:

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c (yes, that's where she lives 🏠)
• mac_get_cam_mask(9)
• mac_set_cam_mask(9)
• mac_set_cam(9)
• mac_wol_reset(9)
• get_chip_name(9)
• velocity_set_int_opt(9)
• velocity_set_bool_opt(9)
• velocity_get_options(9)
• velocity_init_cam_filter(9)
• velocity_rx_reset(9)
• velocity_get_opt_media_mode(9)
• safe_disable_mii_autopoll(9)
• enable_mii_autopoll(9)
• velocity_mii_read(9)
• mii_check_media_mode(9)
• velocity_mii_write(9)
• set_mii_flow_control(9)
• mii_set_auto_on(9)
• velocity_set_media_mode(9)
• velocity_print_link_status(9)
• enable_flow_control_ability(9)
• velocity_soft_reset(9)
• velocity_set_multi(9)
• mii_init(9)
• setup_queue_timers(9)
• setup_adaptive_interrupts(9)
• velocity_init_registers(9)
• velocity_init_dma_rings(9)
• velocity_alloc_rx_buf(9)
• velocity_init_rd_ring(9)
• velocity_init_td_ring(9)
• velocity_free_dma_rings(9)
• velocity_free_tx_buf(9)
• velocity_free_td_ring(9)
• velocity_error(9)
• velocity_tx_srv(9)
• velocity_rx_csum(9)
• velocity_rx_copy(9)
• velocity_iph_realign(9)
• velocity_receive_frame(9)
• velocity_rx_srv(9)
• velocity_intr(9)
• velocity_open(9)
• velocity_shutdown(9)
• velocity_change_mtu(9)
• velocity_poll_controller(9)
• velocity_mii_ioctl(9)
• velocity_ioctl(9)
• velocity_get_stats(9)
• velocity_close(9)
• velocity_xmit(9)
• velocity_init_info(9)
• velocity_get_pci_info(9)
• velocity_get_platform_info(9)
• velocity_print_info(9)
• velocity_probe(9)
• velocity_remove(9)
• wol_calc_crc(9)
• velocity_set_wol(9)
• velocity_save_context(9)
• velocity_restore_context(9)
• velocity_ethtool_up(9)
• velocity_ethtool_down(9)
• velocity_init_module(9)
• velocity_cleanup_module(9)

like, that's the entire group chat and every single one of them is (9) — kernel API section gang 🌈

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and that's the page, bestie!! tysm for reading 🫶 this lil drop comes to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/via, dated October 2026 — say it back. mwah 💋✨