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👑 ixgbe_enable_link_status_events(9) — Kernel API Manual energy ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a lil cutie from the ixgbe driver family — it's the one that turns the link status event notifications ON. yes, THE link status events. the ones that tell you your NIC's link is up or down. iconic behavior fr fr.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_enable_link_status_events — enable link status events 💅

like, literally what it says on the tin. it enables them.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_enable_link_status_events (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter , u16
mask );

that's the whole signature, no cap. it hands you back an int.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — pointer to the adapter structure 🫶 this is your struct ixgbe_adapter *, the main character of the whole driver. it's a pointer, so mind your dereferencing bestie.
• mask — event mask to be set ⭐ a u16, so sixteen whole bits of "which events do we care about" energy.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what does it actually DO? it enables link status events by invoking ixgbe_configure_lse ✨ that's it. that's the whole move. it's giving "small function, very important job."

the way this works: you hand it the adapter and the mask, it goes and calls ixgbe_configure_lse under the hood to actually set everything up. lowkey a little delegation queen 👑

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

the exit code of the operation 💀 that's the return value — whatever the operation hands back, you get it. check it. don't ignore it. periodt.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

first up, the actual source, in case you wanna go read the real thing (and honestly, you should, iykyk):

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

and now ✨ the extended universe ✨ — every single sibling function in this family, all (9) man page girlies:

• ixgbe_pcie_from_parent(9), ixgbe_read_reg(9), ixgbe_set_ivar(9), ixgbe_get_vf_idx(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout_reset(9), ixgbe_tx_maxrate(9), ixgbe_update_tx_ring_stats(9), ixgbe_update_rx_ring_stats(9), ixgbe_pf_handle_tx_hang(9), ixgbe_vf_handle_tx_hang(9), ixgbe_check_illegal_queue(9), ixgbe_handle_mdd_event(9), ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(9), ixgbe_rx_is_fcoe(9), ixgbe_rx_checksum(9), ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers(9), ixgbe_process_skb_fields(9), ixgbe_is_non_eop(9), ixgbe_pull_tail(9), ixgbe_dma_sync_frag(9), ixgbe_cleanup_headers(9), ixgbe_reuse_rx_page(9), ixgbe_add_rx_frag(9), ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(9), ixgbe_configure_msix(9), ixgbe_update_itr(9), ixgbe_write_eitr(9), ixgbe_check_overtemp_subtask(9), ixgbe_check_phy_fw_load(9), ixgbe_check_module_power(9), ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9)
• ixgbe_process_link_status_event(9), ixgbe_handle_link_status_event(9), ixgbe_schedule_fw_event(9), ixgbe_aci_event_cleanup(9), ixgbe_handle_fw_event(9), ixgbe_irq_enable(9), ixgbe_poll(9), ixgbe_request_msix_irqs(9), ixgbe_intr(9), ixgbe_request_irq(9), ixgbe_irq_disable(9), ixgbe_configure_msi_and_legacy(9), ixgbe_configure_tx_ring(9), ixgbe_configure_tx(9), ixgbe_rss_indir_tbl_entries(9), ixgbe_store_key(9), ixgbe_init_rss_key(9), ixgbe_store_reta(9), ixgbe_store_vfreta(9), ixgbe_configure_rscctl(9), ixgbe_configure_rx(9), ixgbe_vlan_strip_disable(9), ixgbe_vlan_strip_enable(9), ixgbe_write_mc_addr_list(9), ixgbe_set_rx_mode(9), ixgbe_configure_dcb(9), ixgbe_hpbthresh(9), ixgbe_lpbthresh(9), ixgbe_clean_rx_ring(9), ixgbe_disable_link_status_events(9) (the opposite twin 🫶), ixgbe_sfp_link_config(9), ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config(9), ixgbe_check_media_subtask(9), ixgbe_clear_vf_stats_counters(9), ixgbe_clean_tx_ring(9), ixgbe_clean_all_rx_rings(9), ixgbe_clean_all_tx_rings(9), ixgbe_set_eee_capable(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout(9), ixgbe_sw_init(9)
• ixgbe_setup_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_max_xdp_frame_size(9), ixgbe_change_mtu(9), ixgbe_open(9), ixgbe_close(9), ixgbe_update_stats(9), ixgbe_fdir_reinit_subtask(9), ixgbe_check_hang_subtask(9), ixgbe_watchdog_update_link(9), ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_up(9), ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_down(9), ixgbe_watchdog_flush_tx(9), ixgbe_watchdog_subtask(9), ixgbe_sfp_detection_subtask(9), ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask(9), ixgbe_service_timer(9), ixgbe_check_fw_error(9), ixgbe_service_task(9), ixgbe_set_mac(9), ixgbe_add_sanmac_netdev(9), ixgbe_del_sanmac_netdev(9), ixgbe_validate_rtr(9), ixgbe_set_prio_tc_map(9), ixgbe_setup_tc(9), ixgbe_configure_bridge_mode(9), ixgbe_irq_disable_single(9), ixgbe_txrx_ring_disable(9), ixgbe_txrx_ring_enable(9), ixgbe_enumerate_functions(9), ixgbe_wol_supported(9)
• ixgbe_set_fw_version_e610(9), ixgbe_set_fw_version(9), ixgbe_recovery_probe(9), ixgbe_probe(9), ixgbe_remove(9), ixgbe_io_error_detected(9), ixgbe_io_slot_reset(9), ixgbe_io_resume(9), ixgbe_init_module(9), ixgbe_exit_module(9)

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ngl bestie, that's a LOT of cross-references. but every single one is here. no skipping, no summarising, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨

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and that's the whole page!! mwah 😘 sign-off time: this lil beauty comes from the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, with its source living at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... — go read it, it's giving iconic 🎀🦋💖