xgmac_probe(9)

🦋 xgmac_probe(9) 🦋

okay so this is the page for xgmac_probe(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and we are gonna get you comfy with it, bestie. No cap. ✨

📛 NAME 📛

xgmac_probe — and the original short description is literally just xgmac_probe - with nothing after the dash, so I'm not inventing extra lore. That's the whole name tea. 💅

🪄 SYNOPSIS 🪄

here's the signature, and yes, copy it exactly — no autocorrect, no vibes-based renaming:

int xgmac_probe (struct platform_device *pdev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — platform device pointer. that's the one argument, and she's doing the platform-device thing. periodt. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the driver is initialized through platform_device. That's literally the description. The driver gets initialized through platform_device, and that's the whole minimal-iconic vibe. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, they're the rest of the xgmac cinematic universe:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/xgmac.c
• xgmac_dma_desc_rings_init(9)
• xgmac_tx_complete(9)
• xgmac_open(9)
• xgmac_stop(9)
• xgmac_xmit(9)
• xgmac_poll(9)
• xgmac_tx_timeout(9)
• xgmac_set_rx_mode(9)
• xgmac_change_mtu(9)
• xgmac_remove(9)

mwah 💋 this page came from the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda, dated October 2026, and it's the xgmac_probe(9) manual page — bestie, you're all caught up. 🫶💖