efx_fill_test(9)

✨ efx_fill_test(9) ✨

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual bestie, today we're looking at efx_fill_test, and honestly? she's a little helper with main character energy 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

efx_fill_test — fill in an individual self-test entry

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void efx_fill_test (unsigned int test_index , u8 *strings , u64 *data ,
int *test , const char *unit_format , int unit_id , const
char *test_format , const char *test_id );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• test_index — the index of the test, like her little seat number 🪑
• strings — the ethtool strings, or NULL (yes, NULL is a valid vibe here)
• data — the ethtool test results, or NULL
• test — pointer to the test result — heads up, it's used only if data != NULL 👀
• unit_format — the unit name format, e.g. "chan"
• unit_id — the unit id, e.g. 0 for "chan0"
• test_format — the test name format, e.g. "loopback.tx.sent"
• test_id — the test id, e.g. "PHYXS" for "loopback.PHYXS.tx_sent"

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Fill in an individual self-test entry. that's it, that's the whole job — one entry, done, slay ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/siena/ethtool_common.c
• efx_fill_loopback_test(9)
• efx_ethtool_fill_self_tests(9)

go read those too, iykyk 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, every flag and argument accounted for 💜

signing off from ./drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/siena, dated October 2026, with love from your fave kernel-fluent girly 🎀✨