get_vpd_params(9)

💖 get_vpd_params(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're diving into get_vpd_params from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, very demure, very kernel-coded 🎀). This one's a little function with one job and it does it slayfully.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int get_vpd_params (struct adapter *adapter , struct vpd_params *p );

like, that's the whole signature. short king. 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• adapter — the adapter you want to read from. that's the vibe check target, bestie. 🫶
• p — the place where the parameters get stored. it's giving "bring your own container" energy. 🍓

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the whole lore here is that this function reads the card parameters that are stored in the VPD EEPROM. That's it. That's the tea. ☕ It goes and gets the VPD params out of the VPD EEPROM, no cap. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The kernel source file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/t3_hw.c, and honestly the friend group here is huge — brace yourself, we're listing everyone at the function party 👑:

t3_wait_op_done_val(9), t3_write_regs(9), t3_set_reg_field(9), t3_read_indirect(9), t3_mc7_bd_read(9), t3_mdio_change_bits(9), t3_phy_reset(9), t3_phy_advertise(9), t3_phy_advertise_fiber(9), t3_set_phy_speed_duplex(9), t3_seeprom_wp(9), sf1_read(9), sf1_write(9), flash_wait_op(9), t3_read_flash(9), t3_write_flash(9), t3_get_tp_version(9), t3_check_tpsram_version(9), t3_check_tpsram(9), t3_get_fw_version(9), t3_check_fw_version(9), t3_flash_erase_sectors(9), t3_load_fw(9), t3_cim_ctl_blk_read(9), t3_link_changed(9), t3_link_start(9), t3_set_vlan_accel(9), t3_handle_intr_status(9), t3_intr_enable(9), t3_intr_disable(9), t3_intr_clear(9), t3_port_intr_enable(9), t3_port_intr_disable(9), t3_port_intr_clear(9),

t3_sge_write_context(9), clear_sge_ctxt(9), t3_sge_init_ecntxt(9), t3_sge_init_flcntxt(9), t3_sge_init_rspcntxt(9), t3_sge_init_cqcntxt(9), t3_sge_enable_ecntxt(9), t3_sge_disable_fl(9), t3_sge_disable_rspcntxt(9), t3_sge_disable_cqcntxt(9), t3_sge_cqcntxt_op(9), t3_config_rss(9), t3_tp_set_offload_mode(9), pm_num_pages(9), partition_mem(9), tp_set_timers(9), t3_tp_set_coalescing_size(9), t3_tp_set_max_rxsize(9), t3_load_mtus(9), t3_tp_get_mib_stats(9), t3_set_proto_sram(9), t3_config_sched(9), get_pci_mode(9), init_link_config(9), mc7_calc_size(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨

this masterpiece dropped from ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio... in October 2026 — go off, calendar icon 🎀🦋💖