ice_acquire_nvm(9)

💖 ice_acquire_nvm(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ice_acquire_nvm, straight out of the Linux kernel API manual (section 9, yes that nine). this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of a queen — she's the "hey can i have the NVM pls" function, and we're gonna get into it. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_acquire_nvm — the generic request for acquiring the NVM ownership. that's it, that's her job. she asks nicely (well, she requests), and the NVM is hers. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_acquire_nvm (struct ice_hw *hw , enum ice_aq_res_access_type
access );

she returns an int, she takes a struct ice_hw * and an enum ice_aq_res_access_type, and she's living her best life. literally iconic signature. 🦋

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the HW structure. yeah. the hardware. the whole vibe. you hand her this and she knows exactly which silicon she's dealing with. 💜
• access — the NVM access type, and the two moods are read or write. that's the whole selection menu, bestie. pick your fighter. 📖 vs ✍️

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does she actually do? this function will request NVM ownership. that's the entire plot. 🫶

like — no plot twists, no secret side quests. she requests ownership of the NVM and that's the tea. the way that a one-sentence description can still be main character energy, iykyk. 😭✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group, in order, no one left out, we don't do that here:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
• ice_aq_read_nvm(9), ice_read_flat_nvm(9), ice_aq_update_nvm(9), ice_aq_erase_nvm(9), ice_read_sr_word(9), ice_release_nvm(9), ice_get_flash_bank_offset(9), ice_read_flash_module(9), ice_read_nvm_module(9), ice_read_nvm_sr_copy(9), ice_read_netlist_module(9), ice_get_pfa_module_tlv(9), ice_read_pba_string(9), ice_get_nvm_ver_info(9), ice_get_inactive_nvm_ver(9), ice_get_orom_civd_data(9), ice_get_orom_ver_info(9), ice_get_inactive_orom_ver(9), ice_get_netlist_info(9), ice_get_inactive_netlist_ver(9), ice_discover_flash_size(9), ice_read_sr_pointer(9), ice_read_sr_area_size(9), ice_determine_active_flash_banks(9), ice_get_nvm_css_hdr_len(9), ice_determine_css_hdr_len(9), ice_init_nvm(9), ice_nvm_validate_checksum(9), ice_nvm_write_activate(9), ice_aq_nvm_update_empr(9)

(and yes, ice_release_nvm(9) is in there — she's the one you call when you're done holding the NVM, because we always give it back. be a good citizen. 🧚)

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okay that's the whole page and honestly? she ate. 💅✨

this masterpiece lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ice_acquire_nvm(9) — go off, kernel docs. 👑💖