xgmac_tx_timeout(9)

💖 xgmac_tx_timeout(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the xgmac_tx_timeout(9) page — it’s giving kernel API realness and we’re gonna get through it together, no cap 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

xgmac_tx_timeout — that’s the name, and the original one-liner is literally blank after the dash 😭 so we’re not inventing a summary, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void xgmac_tx_timeout (struct net_device *dev , unsigned int txqueue );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — pointer to net device structure 💅
• txqueue — index of the hung transmit queue 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, this function is called when a packet transmission fails to complete within a reasonable tmrate 😭✨ The driver will mark the error in the netdev structure and arrange for the device to be reset to a sane state in order to transmit a new packet. iconic recovery behavior, honestly 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• 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_set_rx_mode(9)
• xgmac_change_mtu(9)
• xgmac_probe(9)
• xgmac_remove(9)

mwah 💋 this cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda, dated October 2026, and it’s literally the xgmac_tx_timeout(9) manual page — slay 🎀🫶