i40e_check_recovery_mode(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

i40e_check_recovery_mode — checks if we're running transition firmware 💅

okay so before we get into it — hi bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 🎀 this one's short and sweet, no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool i40e_check_recovery_mode (struct i40e_pf *pf );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pf — board private structure. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So what this icon actually does: it checks the registers that tell you whether the firmware is running in recovery mode 🔍✨ and then it sets the appropriate driver state, like a good little main character.

Returns true if the recovery mode was detected, and false otherwise. literally that simple, no notes 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Bestie. Sit down. There's a list 💀 if ykyk. First up, the source file itself:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

and now the whole extended family, one by one, in the order they showed up 👑

okay that's the whole roster, bestie ate and left no crumbs 👑 go read them all, i believe in you 💜

ngl this page lives under ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026 — that's the source/version and date, so now you know 🎀 mwah, bye, go check your firmware 💖✨🦋
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