ice_gnss_do_write(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_gnss_do_write(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a little kernel function page and honestly it's serving serious internal-communications realness ✨ so let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ice_gnss_do_write — literally just: write data to the internal GNSS receiver 🌸 no cap, that's the whole vibe of this function 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_gnss_do_write (struct ice_pf *pf , const unsigned char *buf ,
       unsigned int size );

like that's it, that's the signature, and yes it returns an int 💖

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pf — the board private structure 👑 (your whole little board's personal business)
  • buf — the command buffer 📨 (this is the stuff you're actually sending)
  • size — the command buffer size 📏 (how much stuff 👀)

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so the way that this works is you write UBX command data to the GNSS receiver 🛰️✨ that's literally it. UBX command data goes in, GNSS receiver gets it. iconic behavior, no notes 💅

ngl this is the low-level doer — it's the one actually pushing those bytes, iykyk 🧚

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • number of bytes written — success 🎉 slay, it worked
  • negative — error code 😭💀 something went wrong, and the number will tell you how wrong

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c 📁 — that's where the magic lives fr fr

and the whole friend group 🫶:

and that's the page bestie!! 🎀💖 brought to you by the source/version over at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and dated October 2026 ⭐ — mwah, go write some UBX data, you've got this 👑💅

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