velocity_probe(9)

💅 velocity_probe(9) — the kernel API glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the velocity_probe(9) manual page — it's the ninth section of the kernel API manual and it's literally all about setting up a velocity device the second you find one. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

velocity_probe — set up a discovered velocity device. that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int velocity_probe (struct device *dev , int irq , const struct
velocity_info_tbl *info , enum velocity_bus_type bustype );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dev — the PCI device. the whole point, the main character 👑
• irq — interrupt info. yes queen, we need to know how it yells for attention 🔥
• info — table of match. it's giving "who are you and are you on the list" 🫶
• bustype — the bus that device is connected to. gotta know what street it lives on 🌈

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically you configure a discovered adapter from scratch — like a full glow-up, nothing inherited, starting fresh ✨ and on the failure paths it returns a negative errno error code. so if something goes wrong, it does not just ghost you, it tells you with a number 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

no cap, this section is an entire friend group. the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c:

• 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_free_rd_ring(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_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)

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okay that's the whole page, periodt 💜 and for the cute sign-off: this icon lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/via, dated October 2026, and she's out here serving velocity_probe(9) realness. slay, bye 🎀✨