efx_mae_allocate_pedit_mac(9)

🦋 efx_mae_allocate_pedit_mac — the Kernel API Manual era 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the efx_mae_allocate_pedit_mac(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ no cap, this one's a little cutie with a big job.

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💖 NAME 💖

efx_mae_allocate_pedit_mac — allocate a pedit MAC address in HW, periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int efx_mae_allocate_pedit_mac (struct efx_nic *efx , struct
       efx_tc_mac_pedit_action *ped );

like literally that's the whole signature, copy it exactly bestie 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• efx — the NIC we're installing a pedit MAC address on. yes ma'am, this is the main character hardware 🌈
• ped — the pedit MAC action that's getting installed. she's the one being placed 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what this does is: it attempts to install ped in HW 🔥 and tbh if that works out, it populates its id with an index of this entry in the firmware MAC address table. on success. only on success. iykyk 😭

like the way that it's giving "put the thing in the hardware and then tell you where it landed" — that's the whole vibe fr fr 👑

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• a negative value on error 💀
• 0 in success 🎉 slay

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mae.c 📁
• efx_mae_free_pedit_mac(9) — the bestie that undoes this one 🦋

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and that's the page, bestie!! this little icon came from the ./drivers/net/ethernet/sfc directory, living in the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026 🌸 mwah, go install some MAC addresses responsibly 💜