i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase, and no cap this one is a little baddie with a big job 🎀 she literally exists to erase an NVM module, and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase — Erase an NVM module 💅 yeah that's the whole gig, she wipes it, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase (struct i40e_hw *hw , struct i40e_nvm_access
*cmd , int *perrno );

that's the signature fr fr — three args, one int coming back at you 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 🌈 like, the actual hardware vibe itself, she needs the pointer bestie
  • cmd — pointer to nvm update command buffer 📦 this is where all the juicy instructions are living
  • perrno — pointer to return error code 😭 it's a pointer, so the error code gets written back out through it, not just returned, iykyk

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — module, offset, data_size and data are all in the cmd structure. that's it, that's the description, they all live in cmd and she reads them from there. lowkey efficient, highkey slay 👑

heads up babes: those four fields are inside the cmd structure — that's not me being cute, that's literally where they are 🫶

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group 💖 like a group chat where everyone actually knows their stuff:

okay that's the whole page bestie, go erase some NVM modules responsibly 💀✨

sign-off time 🎀 this little masterpiece lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, it's dated October 2026, and the page itself is i40e_nvmupd_nvm_erase(9) — mwah, stan her, bye 💋

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