ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9) — literally the tiniest little snitch in the ixgbe driver, and honestly it ate 💅

💖 NAME 💖

ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err — check if link configuration failed

like, it peeks at the link config and goes "bestie… something's off" 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter , u8
link_cfg_err );

that's the whole vibe: a void return (no results back, she just prints and leaves, main character energy 👑) and two arguments. periodt.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • adapter — pointer to the adapter structure. you know her, you love her, she's the struct ixgbe_adapter * holding the whole situation 💜
  • link_cfg_err — bitmap from the link info structure. ngl it's giving "receipts in binary form" — this is where the failure flags live 💀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: if any link configuration failure happens — and the cause is the value sitting in the link_cfg_err parameter inside the link info structure — this function prints about it. that's it. that's the whole job. she prints. she does not fix it. iconic honestly 😭

fr fr, all she does is print. don't ask her to recover anything, that's not her era 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

and now, the extended friend group 🫶 — first up, the kernel file itself:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c

then literally everyone else she's mutuals with:

like… she knows everyone. iykyk 🌈

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋

cute little sign-off moment: this one comes from the source <pink>./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i...</pink> and it's dated October 2026 — and yes, the footer still very much says ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9) because she's not letting anyone forget her name ⭐🎀🦋

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