wx_clear_hw_cntrs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ wx_clear_hw_cntrs — the Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, this one is from the Kernel API Manual (the (9) is giving "section 9, kernel internals, don't ask" energy 💅) and it's honestly so chill. Let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

wx_clear_hw_cntrs — generic clear hardware counters. that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void wx_clear_hw_cntrs (struct wx *wx );

literally just one arg, no return value, no drama. void in, void out, main character energy 👑

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • wx — the board private structure 🎀 that's your board's own little private struct, okay? like its personal diary but for hardware.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So what does it do? It clears all hardware statistics counters — and the way it does that is by reading them from the hardware. That's the trick, no cap. ✨

And here's the iconic part: statistics counters are clear on read. 🫧 so the act of reading them is the clearing. you read, they're gone. like a snapchat streak of numbers. it's giving "the reading IS the reset" and honestly? we love a self-cleaning counter 💀

ngl this is the entire function, so there's no hidden gotcha here — but do keep that clear-on-read behaviour in your head, because it means the numbers vanish the moment you peek at them 👀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file, for when you wanna go read the actual source (iykyk):

./drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/libwx/wx_hw.c

and the whole friend group of sibling functions, all here, all accounted for, no one left behind 🫶:

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓

cute little sign-off before you go: this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun... and dated October 2026 — yes, october twenty twenty-six, we're reading ahead, and it's still wx_clear_hw_cntrs(9) at the bottom, exactly like it was at the top 🎀💜

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