arc_emac_intr(9)

✨ arc_emac_intr(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about arc_emac_intr — the global interrupt handler for EMAC 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

arc_emac_intr — the global interrupt handler for EMAC, periodt 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

irqreturn_t arc_emac_intr (int irq , void *dev_instance );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• irq — the irq number, bestie 🔢
• dev_instance — the device instance 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

IRQ_HANDLED for all cases. like, every single one. no cap 👑

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so here's the tea ☕ — ARC EMAC has literally only 1 interrupt line, that's it, just one 🥺 and depending on which bits get raised in the STATUS register, we can tell what the reason is for the interrupt to fire. iykyk ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c plus the whole friend group 💖:

• arc_emac_tx_avail(9)
• arc_emac_adjust_link(9)
• arc_emac_get_drvinfo(9)
• arc_emac_tx_clean(9)
• arc_emac_rx(9)
• arc_emac_rx_miss_handle(9)
• arc_emac_rx_stall_check(9)
• arc_emac_poll(9)
• arc_emac_open(9)
• arc_emac_set_rx_mode(9)
• arc_free_tx_queue(9)
• arc_free_rx_queue(9)
• arc_emac_stop(9)
• arc_emac_stats(9)
• arc_emac_tx(9)
• arc_emac_set_address(9)
• arc_emac_restart(9)

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lowkey the whole squad lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/arc — go say hi 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this cutie came out in October 2026 from ./drivers/net/ethernet/arc, and the version/source line at the bottom is arc_emac_intr(9) — slay, go read your kernel docs 💜✨🎀