igb_tx_timeout(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 igb_tx_timeout(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is igb_tx_timeout 🫶 she's the one who gets called when the transmit side of things just... stops. a real "the Tx queue is not texting back" moment 😭

🌸 NAME 🌸

igb_tx_timeout — respond to a Tx hang 💀✨

like, genuinely: this is the "your packets are ghosting you" handler. iconic, honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void igb_tx_timeout (struct net_device *netdev , unsigned int txqueue );

that's the whole signature, no cap. void return, so she doesn't even tell you how it went — she just handles it 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • netdev — the network interface device structure 🫶 lowkey the whole personality of the NIC lives in here.
  • txqueue — the number of the Tx queue that hung. and yes bestie, she's marked unused 🙈 so like... it's giving "invited to the party but not actually dancing." still gotta be in the signature tho ✨
ngl if you were hoping txqueue would tell you which queue misbehaved, the manpage says it's unused — don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the source file first, because that's where the lore lives:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c 👑

and now the full friend group — every single one, no skips, we don't leave anyone on read 💖:

like, that's the whole group chat. ninety-ish besties and not one of them left out 💜✨

💀 reminder bestie: txqueue is literally documented as unused, so don't build your whole debugging arc around it. the manpage said what it said 🫶

and that's the tea 🎀 this page lives under ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb, dated October 2026, and she answers to igb_tx_timeout(9) — go off, queen 👑💖🌸

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