i40e_update_link_info(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is i40e_update_link_info from section 9 of the Kernel API Manual — and what it does is update status of the HW network link ✨ that's the whole vibe, that's the job 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the whole signature, no cap:

noinline_for_stack int i40e_update_link_info (struct i40e_hw *hw );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the hw struct 💅 literally just a pointer to the hardware struct, she's simple like that, we stan a low-maintenance parameter 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so first up, the source file herself lives at:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c 📁

and then the whole squad — like every single one of her friends, iykyk, nobody gets left out 👑:

like… that's 127 besties and every single one of them ate 💅🔥

no cap, that's the entire page — it's short because it's iconic, not because she's got nothing going on 💀

🌸 okay that's the whole thing bestie! this came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026, and it's filed under i40e_update_link_info(9) in the Kernel API Manual — go update that link status, main character 🦋 💜

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