e1000_flash_cycle_ich8lan(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 e1000_flash_cycle_ich8lan(9) 💖

okay bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual and it's giving “tiny helper function, main character energy.” It's all about starting a flash cycle — read/write/erase — and waiting for it to wrap up. No cap, that's the vibe. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

e1000_flash_cycle_ich8lan — Starts flash cycle (read/write/erase)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact call, bestie — keep the spaces and punctuation literally exactly like this:

s32 e1000_flash_cycle_ich8lan (struct e1000_hw *hw , u32 timeout );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure
  • timeout — maximum time to wait for completion

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This function starts a flash cycle and waits for its completion. So it kicks off the cycle and then literally waits until it's done. Periodt. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c

and here's the whole icon squad of related references, all in (9):

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... · date: October 2026 · page: e1000_flash_cycle_ich8lan(9). slay. 💖

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