ixgbe_get_media_type_82598(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_get_media_type_82598 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — we're talking about ixgbe_get_media_type_82598, and honestly it's giving "small function, big main character energy" 💖 she's not complicated, she's just here to tell you what kind of cable situation you're dealing with 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_get_media_type_82598 — literally just determines the media type 💅 no cap

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum ixgbe_media_type ixgbe_get_media_type_82598 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

(yeah the spacing before the ) is exactly like that, don't @ me 🙈)

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 🦋 that's it, that's the whole argument list, she travels light

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Returns the media type, and the media type is one of these three besties: fiber, copper, or backplane 🌈

like, that's it. that's the function. she looks at the hardware, she tells you which of the three it is, she leaves. iconic behaviour 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the source lives at this kernel file, right here ⭐

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82598.c

and here's the whole friend group, all the 82598 girlies you should go say hi to 💖

ngl, she's a one-liner icon and I'm obsessed 😭 go read the whole squad, iykyk 💀

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 source on deck: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the original, don't shoot the messenger 🙈), October 2026 vintage, and the manual name is ixgbe_get_media_type_82598(9) — periodt 💅💖✨

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