igb_up(9)

🌸 igb_up(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the igb_up(9) page and it's genuinely so much shorter than the SEE ALSO section would have you believe 😭 like the refs list is a whole novel and the actual page is a lil snack. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

igb_up — opens the interface and preps it to handle traffic 🦋

like, it wakes the thing up and gets it ready for packets to actually flow, that's the whole job, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int igb_up (struct igb_adapter *adapter );

(no I did not forget the space before that closing paren, that's literally how it's written, we keep it exact around here 💖)

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adapter — the board private structure 🧚 you hand it the board's own private struct and it does its thing.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so THIS is the main character of the page. grab a snack, there's a lot of them, and yes every single one is here because we don't skip 🍓

Kernel file:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c

and the whole bestie squad:

• igb_get_i2c_data(9), igb_set_i2c_data(9), igb_set_i2c_clk(9), igb_get_i2c_clk(9), igb_get_hw_dev(9), igb_init_module(9), igb_exit_module(9), igb_cache_ring_register(9), igb_write_ivar(9), igb_configure_msix(9), igb_request_msix(9), igb_free_q_vector(9), igb_reset_q_vector(9), igb_free_q_vectors(9)
• igb_clear_interrupt_scheme(9), igb_set_interrupt_capability(9), igb_alloc_q_vector(9), igb_alloc_q_vectors(9), igb_init_interrupt_scheme(9), igb_request_irq(9), igb_irq_disable(9), igb_irq_enable(9), igb_release_hw_control(9), igb_get_hw_control(9), igb_config_tx_modes(9), igb_setup_tx_mode(9), igb_configure(9)
• igb_power_up_link(9), igb_power_down_link(9), igb_check_swap_media(9), igb_set_i2c_bb(9), igb_set_fw_version(9), igb_init_mas(9), igb_init_i2c(9), igb_probe(9), igb_remove_i2c(9), igb_remove(9), igb_probe_vfs(9), igb_sw_init(9), __igb_open(9), __igb_close(9)
• igb_setup_tx_resources(9), igb_setup_all_tx_resources(9), igb_setup_tctl(9), igb_configure_tx_ring(9), igb_configure_tx(9), igb_setup_rx_resources(9), igb_setup_all_rx_resources(9), igb_setup_mrqc(9), igb_setup_rctl(9), igb_setup_srrctl(9), igb_configure_rx_ring(9), igb_configure_rx(9)
• igb_free_tx_resources(9), igb_free_all_tx_resources(9), igb_clean_tx_ring(9), igb_clean_all_tx_rings(9), igb_free_rx_resources(9), igb_free_all_rx_resources(9), igb_clean_rx_ring(9), igb_clean_all_rx_rings(9)
• igb_set_mac(9), igb_write_mc_addr_list(9), igb_set_rx_mode(9), igb_has_link(9), igb_check_lvmmc(9), igb_watchdog(9), igb_update_ring_itr(9), igb_update_itr(9), igb_tx_timeout(9), igb_get_stats64(9), igb_change_mtu(9), igb_update_stats(9), igb_set_uta(9)
• igb_intr_msi(9), igb_intr(9), igb_poll(9), igb_clean_tx_irq(9), igb_reuse_rx_page(9), igb_add_rx_frag(9), igb_is_non_eop(9), igb_cleanup_headers(9), igb_process_skb_fields(9), igb_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• igb_mii_ioctl(9), igb_ioctl(9), igb_io_error_detected(9), igb_io_slot_reset(9), igb_io_resume(9), igb_rar_set_index(9), igb_read_i2c_byte(9), igb_write_i2c_byte(9)

bestie if you made it through that list you deserve a little treat, go drink some water 💜

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and that's the whole page!! short king energy fr fr 👑

so like, this page lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb, it's dated October 2026, and it's titled igb_up(9) — mwah, slay, see you in the next manpage 🎀✨🦋