e1000_read_mac_addr(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_read_mac_addr(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a little function that does exactly one iconic thing and honestly? she ate.

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_read_mac_addr — read the adapter's MAC from eeprom 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s32 e1000_read_mac_addr (struct e1000_hw *hw );

like yes that spacing is real, don't touch it, she's perfect 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — the struct holding all the variables that get accessed by shared code. everything lives in here, she's the main character 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does she actually do? simple: she reads the adapter's MAC address out of the EEPROM 🌈

and then — plot twist — she inverts the LSB for the second function of dual function devices 😭 like not a huge deal but lowkey important if you're the second function, yk?

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the kernel file:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c

and literally the entire extended friend group, all present and accounted for, no one left behind 💜:

like… that's a lot of besties but we love a connected community 🧚

🫶 quick reminder bb: everything above is exactly what the page says, nothing invented, nothing dropped. iykyk 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... and she's dated October 2026 — so go forth, read those MACs, invert that LSB, slay 👑✨🌸

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