ice_update_pkg(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

ice_update_pkg — okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual entry for the ice driver's package updater, and I need you to know that the original manpage literally leaves the description after the dash blank. Empty. Nothing. A whole void. So the name is all we're getting and honestly? We respect the mystery. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_update_pkg (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_buf *bufs , u32 count
);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

Three of them, no cap, and here's exactly what each one is:

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 💅 that's it, that's the whole job
  • bufs — pointer to an array of buffers ✨ yes, an array, plural energy
  • count — the number of buffers in the array 🌸 so it knows how many besties are in the group chat

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does it do? Two things, and they're both in the original and I refuse to add a third:

  1. It obtains the change lock 🔒
  2. It updates the package 📦

That's the whole arc. Lock first, then update — the order is giving main character energy and it is NOT up for discussion. Lowkey iconic that a function can be this brief and still be trusted with a lock. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ddp.c — that's where the real lore lives, go read it iykyk 📖

And now the extended universe, bestie. Sixty-nine entries. I counted. Not me counting. I did count. 💀 Every single one, in order, exactly as written, no merges, no skips:

not me clocking that ice_update_pkg_no_lock(9) is sitting right there in the list while this page says it obtains the change lock 😭 two different functions bestie, read the names, they're literally different functions, do not come for me 🫶

okay that's the whole page!! no notes, it's short and it's perfect and we love a concise king 👑 🌈 ⭐

this came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice (source/version, and yes that's where you'll find the code) and it's dated October 2026 — future-dated manpage, she's ahead of her time 💅✨ 🎀 🌸 🦋

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