ice_get_flash_bank_offset(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ice_get_flash_bank_offset — bestie's guide to flash bank offsets 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel internals, very main-character energy) and honestly? it's a little one, but it's important, so let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ice_get_flash_bank_offset — literally just: get the offset into whichever flash bank you asked for 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u32 ice_get_flash_bank_offset (struct ice_hw *hw , enum ice_bank_select
bank , u16 module );

yes that's the whole signature, no cap — it hands you back a u32 🔥

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. the whole vibe check starts here ✨
  • bank — tells us whether we're reading from the active flash bank or the inactive one 🙈
  • module — the module you wanna read from 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so based on the module you pass in, it looks up that module's offset from the beginning of the flash. that's the whole job, and it ate 👑

it returns the flash offset. but — and this is the important part, so listen up — a return value of zero is invalid and you must treat it as an error. like, zero ain't a real offset here, it's a red flag 🚩💀

bestie please. if you get 0 back, don't just keep going like nothing happened. that's an error. handle it. periodt 💅

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

some required reading, iykyk 📚 — kernel file:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c

and the whole friend group of related calls:

that's the page!! sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and it's ice_get_flash_bank_offset(9) all the way down 🌈💖 mwah, go read your flash offsets responsibly 🎀

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