ixgbe_get_sa...addr_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

ixgbe_get_san_mac_addr_generic — bestie, this is the one that goes and gets your SAN MAC address out of the EEPROM ✨ (this is the ixgbe_get_sa...addr_generic(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and yes the title got cut off mid-name, she's just Like That 💅)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_get_san_mac_addr_generic (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u8
*san_mac_addr );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — a pointer to the hardware structure, iykyk. that's your whole device vibe right there 🫶
  • san_mac_addr — the SAN MAC address. that's the thing you're getting. main character of this function fr fr 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so what this does: it reads the SAN MAC address out of the EEPROM, if it's available 🔥. "if it's available" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, so like… temper your expectations bestie 😭

here's the important part, don't skip it: this whole thing is per-port, so set_lan_id must be called before you go reading the addresses. periodt. no cap. ⭐

and the tea ☕ is that set_lan_id does get called by identify_sfp, but you can NOT rely on that for non-SFP connections — so we just gotta call it here ourselves. lowkey annoying, highkey necessary 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file, right here, in all her glory: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c

and then the whole friend group, like, the entire group chat 👑:

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — this gem came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and she's stamped October 2026, filed under ixgbe_get_sa...addr_generic(9). go forth and read your EEPROM responsibly 🧚💜

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