ixgbe_get_media_type_82599(9)

💅 ixgbe_get_media_type_82599 — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, this is literally the ixgbe_get_media_type_82599(9) page and it's giving "small function, big friend group" energy ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_get_media_type_82599 — get the media type 🫶 (yes that's the whole name, it's not that deep)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum ixgbe_media_type ixgbe_get_media_type_82599 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

like, that's the whole call. one argument. no drama. periodt 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure, aka the main character of this whole situation 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically this function returns the media type — and the vibes it can hand back are fiber, copper, or backplane. that's it. that's the tea ☕ no cap, that's genuinely all it does.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie brace yourself, this function has SO many mutuals, i'm obsessed 😭 first the kernel file it lives in:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c

and now the whole group chat, in order, all of them, no skips:

• prot_autoc_read_82599(9)
• prot_autoc_write_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_phy_ops_82599(9)
• ixgbe_get_link_capabilities_82599(9)
• ixgbe_stop_mac_link_on_d3_82599(9)
• ixgbe_start_mac_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_disable_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_enable_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_flap_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_set_hard_rate_select_speed(9)
• ixgbe_setup_mac_link_smartspeed(9)
• ixgbe_setup_mac_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_setup_copper_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_reset_hw_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_check_cmd_complete(9)
• ixgbe_reinit_fdir_tables_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_enable_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_fdir_signature_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_fdir_perfect_82599(9)
• ixgbe_atr_compute_sig_hash_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_add_signature_filter_82599(9)
• ixgbe_atr_compute_perfect_hash_82599(9)
• ixgbe_get_fdirtcpm_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_analog_reg8_82599(9)
• ixgbe_write_analog_reg8_82599(9)
• ixgbe_start_hw_82599(9)
• ixgbe_identify_phy_82599(9)
• ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_82599(9)
• ixgbe_verify_fw_version_82599(9)
• ixgbe_verify_lesm_fw_enabled_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_eeprom_buffer_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599(9)
• ixgbe_reset_pipeline_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_i2c_byte_82599(9)
• ixgbe_write_i2c_byte_82599(9)

like i said. huge friend group. iykyk 💀

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🌈 this cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (the source path got a little truncated by the manpage formatting, not by me, i promise 🙈) and it's dated October 2026, so it's a whole future icon. mwah, bye 💜🦋🍓