ixgbe_detec...size_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_detect_eeprom_page_size_generic(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: it's giving kernel-docs-that-got-squished-by-the-terminal energy. The full name is ixgbe_detect_eeprom_page_size_generic(9), but the header up top shows ixgbe_detec...size_generic(9) because even man pages have to ✨compress✨ sometimes. Anyway. This is the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's about finding out how big an EEPROM page is. Iconic, honestly.

🎀 NAME 🎀

ixgbe_detect_eeprom_page_size_generic — detect EEPROM page size. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_detect_eeprom_page_size_generic (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u16
offset );

returns an int, takes two things. slay. 💖

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure. yeah. it's the hardware. it's pointing at it. we love a pointer. 👑
  • offset — offset within the EEPROM to be used as a scratch pad. yes bestie, scratch pad — we're gonna scribble on it (respectfully). 🙈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So the whole deal: this function discovers the EEPROM page size by writing marching data at the given offset. Marching data, like little soldiers, marching in to figure out how big the page is. 🔥

And before you clutch your pearls about it writing all over your EEPROM — it's fine, fr fr. This function is called only when we are writing a new large buffer at the given offset, so the data would be overwritten anyway. The scratch pad is already doomed. we're just doing a vibe check on it first. 💀

no cap: this only makes sense in that one call path. don't just summon it out of nowhere and expect the universe to hand you a page size. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file it lives in, first of all:

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

and then... the entire friend group. like, the whole friend group. buckle up, bestie, we're going through all of them 👑✨:

like I said. the whole friend group. every single one made the list and every single one is valid 💅💖

and that's the page, bestie 🫶 — brought to you by the source file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes, it's truncated in the footer too, the terminal is a hater 😭) and dated October 2026. go detect some page sizes. periodt. 🎀✨

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