ice_dpll_init_worker(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_dpll_init_worker — the Kernel API Manual one, bestie

okay so real talk, this one is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's the glow-up guide for ice_dpll_init_worker. She's short, she's sweet, she spins up a worker. Let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ice_dpll_init_worker — literally initialize DPLLs periodic worker. That's the whole vibe. She makes the recurring heartbeat happen. 💓

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_dpll_init_worker (struct ice_pf *pf );

no cap, that's the entire signature. one function, one pointer, one int coming back at you 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pf — the board private structure. that's your whole board's little diary of private state, and you're handing it over 💌

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Create and start DPLLs periodic worker. that's it, that's the job!! she creates the worker, she starts the worker, and then the worker does its little periodic thing forever after. main character energy fr fr 👑

🔥 CONTEXT 🔥

Shall be called after pf->dplls.lock is initialized.

⚠️ bestie this is not a suggestion okay 😭 read it as a shall. if you roll up to this function before that lock is initialized, that's not a vibe check you're gonna pass. lock first. then call. periodt. 💀

🌈 RETURN 🌈

  • 0 — success 💖 (slay, you did it)
  • negative — create worker failure 😭 (the worker did not manifest, tragic)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

there are a LOT of friends in this friend group, and we are not skipping a single one, because they all ate. Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c, plus:

iykyk, that's the whole clique and every single one of them is iconic 🧚

and that's the page!! shoutout to the Kernel API Manual, to the source tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, and to October 2026 for the timestamp — that's the sign-off bestie, go init your worker responsibly 💜🎀⭐

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