igc_validate_nvm_checksum(9)

🌸 igc_validate_nvm_checksum 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for igc_validate_nvm_checksum — yes, that name is a mouthful, but we're gonna slay it together 🫶✨

💖 NAME 💖

igc_validate_nvm_checksum — validate EEPROM checksum. that's the assignment, no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s32 igc_validate_nvm_checksum (struct igc_hw *hw );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the HW structure. it's giving “hand me the hardware struct so I can do my thing” 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: it calculates the EEPROM checksum by reading/adding each word of the EEPROM, and then it verifies that the sum of the EEPROM is equal to 0xBABA. yep, that exact value — 0xBABA — is the vibe check ✅✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_nvm.c
• igc_poll_eerd_eewr_done(9)
• igc_read_nvm_eerd(9)
• igc_read_mac_addr(9)
• igc_update_nvm_checksum(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc, dated October 2026 — now go validate that checksum, bestie, you got this fr fr 🫶🌈