ice_eeprom_test(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’– ice_eeprom_test(9) πŸ’–

okay so welcome to the ice_eeprom_test(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie. This is lowkey iconic: one tiny function, one EEPROM test, and a SEE ALSO guest list that absolutely ate. Let’s get into it. πŸ’…


✨ NAME ✨

ice_eeprom_test β€” perform an EEPROM test on a given net_device.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u64 ice_eeprom_test (struct net_device *netdev );

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πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • netdev β€” the network interface device structure. That’s the one and only argument, bestie. 🫢

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so here’s the tea: this function performs one of the self-tests required by ethtool. That’s the whole job. It returns 0 on success, and non-zero on failure. So 0 is the slay result, non-zero is the β€œsomething’s not giving” result. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the guest list is long, but every single icon is here, periodt:


mwah πŸ’‹ this page’s source/version lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, and it’s dated October 2026 β€” bye bestie, go do that EEPROM test πŸŽ€βœ¨

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