ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610 — a kernel API manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual. this is the girlie that flips your NIC into low power mode and honestly? she's kind of iconic for it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610 — transition to low power states, no cap 💤

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure. that's your hardware bestie right there, she's the main character of this whole function 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is configure Low Power Link Up on the transition into low power states — and we're talking from D0 to non-D0, iykyk. ✨

here's the tea though: the link is required to enter LPLU, so pls pls pls avoid resetting the X557 PHY immediately prior to entering LPLU. like, don't do that. the vibes will be off and the link won't cooperate 😭 that's the whole caveat, keep it close 🎀

🔥 RETURN 🔥

the exit code of the operation. that's it, that's the return — she tells you how it went 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the kernel file lowkey running the whole show:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c

and now the full friend group, everybody's invited, we're not leaving a single one out — periodt 🫶

like I said. everybody. the whole group chat 💀 but fr fr they're all worth a read 🧚

and that's the page bestie!! 🌈 this came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i… (the path got a lil truncated, it's giving mysterious) and the date on it is October 2026 — anyway mwah, go forth and low-power-slay 💖🎀⭐

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