i40e_enable_mc_magic_wake(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 i40e_enable_mc_magic_wake 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today 🎀 yes, that Kernel API Manual. this page is about one very specific little function in the Intel i40e driver, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. lowkey she's the reason your NIC can wake up from a magic packet aimed at a multicast MAC. main character energy fr fr ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_enable_mc_magic_wake — enable multicast magic packet wake up using the mac_address_write admin q function 💅

like. she turns on the wake-on-multicast-magic-packet situation, and she does it through the admin q's mac_address_write function. that's the tea. no cap.

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void i40e_enable_mc_magic_wake (struct i40e_pf *pf );

she returns void, she takes exactly one (1) argument, and she will not be adding more. periodt.

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pf — pointer to struct i40e_pf. that's it. that's the whole argument list. iconic, honestly. 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay so this is the part where the friend group chat gets involved 😭 literally everyone showed up. all of these, none skipped, we are not doing the "left on read" thing:

💀 real talk though bestie: if you only read one of these, read the kernel file. the rest of the squad is just… also there. all four hundred-ish of them. i counted. i'm not okay. 😭

and that's the page!! 🧚 no notes, she ate. 💅

mwah 💋 — this little love letter to i40e_enable_mc_magic_wake(9) lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, stamped October 2026, and it's brought to you by the Kernel API Manual because of course it is. go take a nap, you've earned it. 🎀✨

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