ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init(9)

💅 ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init — setup the debugfs directory for the adapter

okay so bestie, welcome to the ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet — it's the lil "hey, make a debugfs home for this adapter" moment in the Intel ixgbe driver's life 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. returns void, takes one pointer, does the setup thing 🦋

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• adapter — the adapter that is starting up 💖 like, the actual struct ixgbe_adapter * that's waking up and needs its debugfs directory situation handled. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file where all this lives, no cap:

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

and the whole friend group of related calls, go give 'em a read 💅:

• ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_read(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_write(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_read(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_write(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_init(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_exit(9)

ngl the _exit one is literally the counterpart to this page — init here, exit there, balanced as all things should be 🌈

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and that's the whole page bestie, short king behavior 👑 mwah 💋

this little writeup is from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (the footer path got cut off mid-word, iconic honestly 😭), dated October 2026, and it's page ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init(9) of the Kernel API Manual — catch you in the next one, ily, go read your kernel source 🫶💜🍓