ixgbe_init_module(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

ixgbe_init_module — the driver registration routine, aka the very first thing that happens when the driver wakes up ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_init_module (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • void — literally no arguments. nothing. zero. it takes no input and wants none, bestie 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so ixgbe_init_module is the first routine called when the driver is loaded 👑 like, the main character of the load sequence, first one on stage.

and what does it do with all that power? it registers with the PCI subsystem. that's it. that's the whole job 💅 all it does is register with the PCI subsystem — no cap, that is literally the entire thing.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the kernel file this lives in, plus the entire extended friend group 🫶:

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from source ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yep, that's the whole credited path, abbreviated by the manpage itself, not me 🙈), dated October 2026, living in the Kernel API Manual — see you at the next function call, mwah 🎀✨

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