ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_generic 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — section 9 of the manual pages, and today's main character is ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_generic. it's a lil function, it does one thing, and honestly? it ate. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_generic — Enable the Rx DMA unit ✨ that's it, that's the whole vibe. she turns the thing on. iconic behaviour, no notes.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_generic (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u32 regval );

look at her go 😭 returns an int, takes two args, lives her truth.

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🫶 like, the address of the actual hardware struct you're working with. she needs to know which hardware, bestie.
  • regval — the register value to write to RXCTRL ⭐ this is the number that actually gets written into RXCTRL, so choose it wisely fr fr.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Enables the Rx DMA unit 💫

that's genuinely the whole description. no cap. she enables the Rx DMA unit, she does it well, and then she leaves. lowkey queen shit 👑 no extra lore, no secret side quests, just pure "turn it on" energy 🌈

ngl, this is one of those pages where the manpage keeps it short and sweet — so we're not gonna invent details that aren't there. you get exactly what the page gives you, and the page gives you enabling the Rx DMA unit. periodt 💅

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

okay this is the part where I need you to sit down, hydrate, and prepare yourself 🍓 because this list is long long. like, "scroll for a while" long. iykyk 😭 everything below is straight from the page — not one dropped, not one merged, all of them in order:

like I said. long long. but every single one is there, bestie, so go click around and slay 📚✨

🧚 a lil sign-off 🧚

this page came to you straight from the source file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... 💜 (yes, that's how it's written on the page — truncated and all, we don't fix what the manpage gave us 🙈), and it's dated October 2026. that's the version and the date, all folded up in this cute lil bow 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie! go enable that Rx DMA unit. you're gonna do amazing. mwah 💋💖🌈

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