ice_sq_send_cmd_retry(9)

💅 ice_sq_send_cmd_retry 💅

okay so bestie, buckle up — this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's all about ice_sq_send_cmd_retry. no cap, it's a little workhorse and honestly it ate.

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_sq_send_cmd_retry — the one that sends a command to the Control Queue (ATQ) 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_sq_send_cmd_retry (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq
, struct libie_aq_desc *desc , void *buf , u16 buf_size , struct
ice_sq_cd *cd );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• hw — pointer to the HW struct 💖
• cq — pointer to the specific Control queue
• desc — a prefilled descriptor that describes the command (it already knows what it is, main character energy)
• buf — the buffer used for indirect commands (or NULL for direct commands)
• buf_size — the size of the buffer for indirect commands (or 0 for direct commands)
• cd — pointer to the command details structure

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So what it does, fr fr: it retries sending the FW Admin Queue command, multiple times, to the FW Admin Queue — but only if the EBUSY AQ error comes back. like, it's giving "try again bestie" energy 🫶

lowkey important: the retrying only kicks in when you get that EBUSY AQ error. that's the whole trigger, iykyk.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c — that's where the magic lives, go look 👑

and the whole squad, in the order they show up: ice_dump_phy_type(9), ice_set_mac_type(9), ice_is_generic_mac(9), ice_clear_pf_cfg(9), ice_aq_manage_mac_read(9), ice_aq_get_phy_caps(9), ice_aq_get_link_topo_handle(9), ice_aq_get_netlist_node(9), ice_find_netlist_node(9), ice_is_media_cage_present(9), ice_get_media_type(9), ice_get_link_status_datalen(9), ice_aq_get_link_info(9), ice_fill_tx_timer_and_fc_thresh(9), ice_aq_set_mac_cfg(9), ice_init_fltr_mgmt_struct(9), ice_cleanup_fltr_mgmt_struct(9), ice_get_itr_intrl_gran(9), ice_wait_fw_load(9), ice_init_hw(9), ice_deinit_hw(9), ice_check_reset(9), ice_pf_reset(9), ice_reset(9), ice_copy_rxq_ctx_to_hw(9), ice_copy_rxq_ctx_from_hw(9), ice_pack_rxq_ctx(9), ice_unpack_rxq_ctx(9), ice_write_rxq_ctx(9), ice_read_rxq_ctx(9), ice_pack_txq_ctx(9), ice_pack_txq_ctx_full(9), ice_unpack_txq_ctx_full(9), ice_copy_txq_ctx_from_hw(9), ice_copy_txq_ctx_to_hw(9), ice_read_txq_ctx(9), ice_write_txq_ctx(9), ice_pack_txtime_ctx(9), ice_sbq_send_cmd(9), ice_sbq_rw_reg(9), ice_should_retry_sq_send_cmd(9), ice_aq_send_cmd(9), ice_aq_get_fw_ver(9), ice_aq_send_driver_ver(9), ice_aq_q_shutdown(9), ice_aq_req_res(9), ice_aq_release_res(9), ice_acquire_res(9), ice_release_res(9), ice_aq_alloc_free_res(9), ice_alloc_hw_res(9), ice_free_hw_res(9), ice_get_num_per_func(9), ice_parse_common_caps(9), ice_recalc_port_limited_caps(9), ice_parse_vf_func_caps(9), ice_parse_vsi_func_caps(9), ice_parse_1588_func_caps(9), ice_parse_fdir_func_caps(9), ice_parse_func_caps(9), ice_func_id_to_logical_id(9), ice_parse_valid_functions_cap(9), ice_parse_vf_dev_caps(9), ice_parse_vsi_dev_caps(9), ice_parse_1588_dev_caps(9), ice_parse_fdir_dev_caps(9), ice_parse_sensor_reading_cap(9), ice_parse_nac_topo_dev_caps(9), ice_parse_dev_caps(9), ice_is_phy_rclk_in_netlist(9), ice_is_clock_mux_in_netlist(9), ice_is_cgu_in_netlist(9), ice_is_gps_in_netlist(9), ice_aq_list_caps(9), ice_discover_dev_caps(9), ice_discover_func_caps(9), ice_set_safe_mode_caps(9), ice_get_caps(9), ice_aq_manage_mac_write(9), ice_aq_clear_pxe_mode(9), ice_clear_pxe_mode(9), ice_aq_set_port_params(9), ice_is_100m_speed_supported(9), ice_get_link_speed_based_on_phy_type(9), ice_update_phy_type(9), ice_aq_set_phy_cfg(9), ice_update_link_info(9), ice_aq_get_phy_equalization(9), ice_aq_get_fec_stats(9), ice_cache_phy_user_req(9), ice_caps_to_fc_mode(9), ice_caps_to_fec_mode(9), ice_cfg_phy_fc(9), ice_set_fc(9), ice_phy_caps_equals_cfg(9), ice_copy_phy_caps_to_cfg(9), ice_cfg_phy_fec(9), ice_get_link_status(9), ice_aq_set_link_restart_an(9), ice_aq_set_event_mask(9), ice_aq_set_mac_loopback(9), ice_aq_set_port_id_led(9), ice_aq_get_port_options(9), ice_aq_set_port_option(9), ice_get_phy_lane_number(9), ice_aq_sff_eeprom(9), __ice_aq_get_set_rss_lut(9), ice_aq_get_rss_lut(9), ice_aq_set_rss_lut(9), __ice_aq_get_set_rss_key(9), ice_aq_get_rss_key(9), ice_aq_set_rss_key(9), ice_aq_add_lan_txq(9), ice_aq_dis_lan_txq(9), ice_aq_cfg_lan_txq(9), ice_aq_add_rdma_qsets(9), ice_aq_set_txtimeq(9), ice_get_lan_q_ctx(9), ice_ena_vsi_txq(9), ice_dis_vsi_txq(9), ice_cfg_vsi_qs(9), ice_cfg_vsi_lan(9), ice_cfg_vsi_rdma(9), ice_ena_vsi_rdma_qset(9), ice_dis_vsi_rdma_qset(9), ice_aq_get_cgu_input_pin_measure(9), ice_aq_get_cgu_abilities(9), ice_aq_set_input_pin_cfg(9), ice_aq_get_input_pin_cfg(9), ice_aq_set_output_pin_cfg(9), ice_aq_get_output_pin_cfg(9), ice_aq_get_cgu_dpll_status(9), ice_aq_set_cgu_dpll_config(9), ice_aq_set_cgu_ref_prio(9), ice_aq_get_cgu_ref_prio(9), ice_aq_get_cgu_info(9), ice_aq_set_phy_rec_clk_out(9), ice_aq_get_phy_rec_clk_out(9), ice_aq_get_sensor_reading(9), ice_replay_pre_init(9), ice_replay_vsi(9), ice_replay_post(9), ice_stat_update40(9), ice_stat_update32(9), ice_sched_query_elem(9), ice_aq_read_i2c(9), ice_aq_write_i2c(9), ice_get_pca9575_handle(9), ice_read_pca9575_reg(9), ice_aq_set_gpio(9), ice_aq_get_gpio(9), ice_is_fw_api_min_ver(9), ice_fw_supports_link_override(9), ice_get_link_default_override(9), ice_is_phy_caps_an_enabled(9), ice_is_fw_health_report_supported(9), ice_aq_set_health_status_cfg(9), ice_aq_set_lldp_mib(9), ice_fw_supports_lldp_fltr_ctrl(9), ice_lldp_fltr_add_remove(9), ice_lldp_execute_pending_mib(9), ice_fw_supports_report_dflt_cfg(9), ice_get_link_speed(9), ice_get_dest_cgu(9), ice_read_cgu_reg(9), ice_write_cgu_reg(9) — yeah, that's the whole group chat, everybody's invited 🧚

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ngl, that SEE ALSO list is long enough to be its own friend group, but every single one of them is here, no one got left on read 💀

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and that's the page bestie!! source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and the page itself is ice_sq_send_cmd_retry(9) — slay, go forth and retry those commands 💅✨🌈