ice_send_component_table(9)

💖 ice_send_component_table — the Kernel API Manual page bestie 💖

okay so picture this: you're deep in the ice driver, the manual page is literally called ice_send_component_table(9) (that's the "9" for kernel API, iykyk), and it lives in the Kernel API Manual. here's the whole tea 🫖✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_send_component_table — send the PLDM component table to the firmware. that's it, that's the vibe. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_send_component_table (struct pldmfw *context , struct
pldmfw_component *component , u8 transfer_flag );

no cap, those are the three things you're passing in 👑 (the exact wrapped lines included, because we do not mess with the source text, periodt)

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• context — the PLDM fw update structure. your whole firmware-update world lives in here 🌈
• component — the actual component to process. the main character of this call, fr fr ⭐
• transfer_flag — the relative transfer order of this component. basically telling firmware where this piece sits in the lineup 🧚

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does it do? It reads the relevant data off the component and forwards it straight to the device firmware. then it checks the response to see whether the firmware is saying "yeah bestie, the update can proceed" or... not 🙈

This function sends AdminQ commands related to the NVM, and it assumes that the NVM resource has been acquired — like, that's the pre-req, don't come for me if you skipped that step 😭🔥

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💜 RETURN 💜

• zero on success ✨
• or a negative error code on failure 💀

(short and sweet, we love a clean return value 🫶)

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the source file itself, being iconic in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fw_update.c 🍓

and the whole friend group, in order:

ice_send_package_data(9), ice_check_component_response(9), ice_write_one_nvm_block(9), ice_write_nvm_module(9), ice_erase_nvm_module(9), ice_switch_flash_banks(9), ice_flash_component(9), ice_finalize_update(9), ice_op_pci_match_record(9), ice_get_pending_updates(9), ice_cancel_pending_update(9), ice_devlink_flash_update(9)

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lowkey reminder: the NVM resource has to be acquired before you call this. that's not a suggestion, that's the assignment 💅

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okay that's the page!! source/version vibes: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and yes we're still reading ice_send_component_table(9) in the Kernel API Manual. slay, go flash some firmware responsibly 🎀✨🌈