wil_request_board(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual entry for wil_request_board, section 9 — and yes, it’s giving “request board file” energy ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is literally:

int wil_request_board (struct wil6210_priv *wil , const char *name );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• wil — the manpage says undescribed 🙈 no cap, that’s all we get.
• name — also undescribed 💀 the docs are keeping secrets, bestie.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this one requests the board image from the file. The board file address and max size are read from the FW file during initialization. The brd file shall include one header and one data section. 🫶

It returns an error code. periodt. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/fw_inc.c
• wil_fw_verify(9)
• wil_fw_process(9)
• wil_request_firmware(9)
• wil_brd_process(9)
• wil_fw_verify_file_exists(9)

🫶 cute little sign-off: source/version is ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil..., dated October 2026 — slay, that’s the whole page 💖