e1000_acqui..._80003es2lan(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_acquire_swfw_sync_80003es2lan 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real manual, section 9, and yes you're gonna read it 💖 This one's about grabbing the SW/FW semaphore, and it's lowkey iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_acquire_swfw_sync_80003es2lan — Acquire SW/FW semaphore

Like, it goes and gets the semaphore. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s32 e1000_acquire_swfw_sync_80003es2lan (struct e1000_hw *hw , u16 mask );

It returns an s32, it takes a pointer to the HW structure, and it takes a mask. Periodt. 🌸

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. Your hardware, your main character 🫶
  • mask — specifies which semaphore to acquire. Not all semaphores, just the one you point at, iykyk 💅

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the tea ☕ — this function acquires the SW/FW semaphore so you can access the PHY or the NVM. That's it, that's the job.

And the mask? It's not just decorative, bestie — it also specifies which port we're acquiring the lock for. So the mask is doing double duty and honestly? Slay. 👑

ngl, if you don't hold the semaphore before touching the PHY or NVM, you're gonna have a bad time. The lock is the whole point 🧚

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Everything in the 80003es2lan cinematic universe 🌈 — and yes, we're listing all of them, no skips, no cuts:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 go forth and acquire that lock responsibly ✨

sign-off szn 🎀 this one came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... and it's dated October 2026 — yeah, from the future, we don't ask questions 💀

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