ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask — set event mask

Hiii bestie 💖 okay so this page is ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's basically a one-job wonder: setting the event mask. That's it. That's the whole personality. And honestly? Iconic for that. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u8 port_num , u16
mask );

Look at her go 😭 so clean, so concise.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW struct 🫶 literally the hardware struct, she's the main character here
  • port_num — port number of the physical function 💅 yes, the physical function specifically, not the VF vibe
  • mask — event mask to be set 🌸 the mask itself, the thing you're setting, the whole point

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Okay so this is the whole tea: you set the event mask using the ACI command 0x0613 🔥 that's it! That's the lore! No cap.

👑 RETURN 👑

It returns the exit code of the operation 💖 so like, go check it, bestie, it's literally telling you how it went.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Grab a snack because this list is LONG and she ATE 🍓 first up, the kernel file where the magic lives:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c

And now the full squad, every single one, no skips, periodt 💜

Like I said. THE SQUAD. 🧚

ngl this page is short but she's got range — three arguments, one command code, and a whole extended family in SEE ALSO 😭

Okay bye bestie 🫶 this gorgeous little page is brought to you by the source/version line ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026, and signed off as ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask(9) — slay, go set that mask 💅✨

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