ixgbe_get_pending_updates(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbe_get_pending_updates(9) — yes, the manual name is folded right in at the top, cute and accounted for. The function itself is ixgbe_get_pending_updates, and its one-line assignment is literally: Check if the component has a pending update. That’s the job. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The signature is giving “long but we respect her,” and we are not touching a single character:

int ixgbe_get_pending_updates (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter , u8
*pending , struct netlink_ext_ack *extack );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adapter — the PF driver structure. That’s the struct in question, no substitutions. 🫶
• pending — on return, bitmap of updates pending. So after the call, this is where that pending-update bitmap lands. ✨
• extack — Netlink extended ACK. Yep, that exact thing.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the actual task is a vibe check on the device: Check if the device has any pending updates on any flash components. That’s it — any pending updates, any flash components. No cap. 🔥

🌈 RETURN 🌈

It returns 0 on success, or a negative error code on failure. And it updates pending with the bitmap of pending updates. So: success/failure code plus the pending bitmap situation. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fw_update.c
• ixgbe_send_package_data(9)
• ixgbe_check_component_response(9)
• ixgbe_send_component_table(9)
• ixgbe_write_one_nvm_block(9)
• ixgbe_write_nvm_module(9)
• ixgbe_erase_nvm_module(9)
• ixgbe_switch_flash_banks(9)
• ixgbe_flash_component(9)
• ixgbe_finalize_update(9)
• ixgbe_cancel_pending_update(9)
• ixgbe_flash_pldm_image(9)

okay that’s the whole page, bestie — cute little footer sign-off with the source/version and date: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... · October 2026 💖✨