ixgbe_calculate_checksum(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ixgbe_calculate_checksum(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is the little page for ixgbe_calculate_checksum(9), and honestly it's short and sweet — a real main character who doesn't need a whole lore drop.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_calculate_checksum — Calculate checksum for buffer 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

u8 ixgbe_calculate_checksum (u8 *buffer , u32 length );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap. ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • buffer — pointer to EEPROM 🫶 literally a pointer, to the EEPROM. that's the vibe.
  • length — size of EEPROM to calculate a checksum for 🎀 iykyk, it's how many bytes we're checking.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea: it calculates the checksum for some buffer on a specified length 🔥 and the checksum it calculated? it gets returned. that's the whole deal. returned checksum, no drama, no side quests. 😭💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file is sitting right here, being iconic: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c 👑

and now the friend group — literally the entire ixgbe extended universe, lowkey obsessed with how many of these there are:

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 no plot twists, no jump scares, just a checksum doing its little thing. before you go — the source stamps this one from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... 🦋 (yeah it's truncated on the page, iconic behavior) and it's dated October 2026, and it's all ixgbe_calculate_checksum(9) all the way down. slay, periodt ✨👑💅

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