fbnic_fw_mbx_self_test(9)

✨ NAME ✨

fbnic_fw_mbx_self_test — okay so this one's whole personality is verify firmware interface 💅 it's a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a whole vibe check for the mailbox 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum fbnic_fw_self_test_codes fbnic_fw_mbx_self_test (struct fbnic_dev
*fbd );

Like, that's the whole call. One arg, one enum coming back at you 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• fbd — the device you're testing, bestie. That's the one. That's the target 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So this function tests the interfaces to/from the firmware ✨ That's it, that's the job. It's giving "are we actually talking to the firmware or are we just talking to the void" 😭 no cap, that's the entire described behaviour — the interfaces going to and coming from the firmware get tested 🔥

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

It returns... see enum fbnic_fw_self_test_codes 👑 like, the answer lives in that enum, go read it, iykyk 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_fw.c — the main character source file fr fr 🎀

And the whole friend group, all of them:

• fbnic_fw_xmit_test_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_simple_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_ownership_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_coredump_info_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_coredump_read_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_qsfp_read_msg(9)
• fbnic_fw_xmit_tsene_read_msg(9)

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💀 quick reminder bestie: every single one of those xmit_* names is spelled exactly like that, so don't come for me if you typo tsene — that's literally how it's written in the page 🙈

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mwah, that's a wrap 🧚 this lil icon of a page lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic, dated October 2026 — screenshot it, frame it, it's iconic ⭐💖🍓