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.TH "MC32_LOAD_TX_RING" "9" "09 October 2005" "" ""

.SH NAME
mc32_load_tx_ring \- load transmit ring
.SH SYNOPSIS
"SYNOPSIS"
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void mc32_load_tx_ring  (struct net_device * \fIdev\fB);
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.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.TP
\fB\fIdev\fB\fR
The 3c527 card to issue the command to
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This sets up the host transmit data-structures. 
.PP
First, we obtain from the card it's current postion in the tx
ring, so that we will know where to begin transmitting
packets.
.PP
Then, we read the 'next' pointers from the on-card tx ring into
our tx_ring array to reduce slow shared-mem reads. Finally, we
intitalise the tx house keeping variables.