ixgbe_is_media_cage_present(9)

💖 NAME 💖

ixgbe_is_media_cage_present — bestie, this one checks if the media cage is present ✨

Welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbe_is_media_cage_present(9) 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ixgbe_is_media_cage_present (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the HW struct, periodt 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: this function identifies the presence of the media cage using the ACI command (0x06E0) 🔥 No cap, that's literally the whole mission 💜

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🌸 RETURN 🌸

It returns true if the media cage is present, else false 👑

And if there's no cage? Then the media type is backplane or BASE-T 🧚 Real talk, that's the tea ☕

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c 📁 and here's the whole friend group of references, every single one, no skipping 🙈💖

• ixgbe_should_retry_aci_send_cmd_execute(9)
• ixgbe_aci_send_cmd_execute(9)
• ixgbe_aci_send_cmd(9)
• ixgbe_aci_check_event_pending(9)
• ixgbe_aci_get_event(9)
• ixgbe_fill_dflt_direct_cmd_desc(9)
• ixgbe_aci_get_fw_ver(9)
• ixgbe_aci_req_res(9)
• ixgbe_aci_release_res(9)
• ixgbe_acquire_res(9)
• ixgbe_release_res(9)
• ixgbe_parse_e610_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_valid_functions_cap(9)
• ixgbe_parse_vf_dev_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_vsi_dev_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_fdir_dev_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_dev_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_vf_func_caps(9)
• ixgbe_get_num_per_func(9)
• ixgbe_parse_vsi_func_caps(9)
• ixgbe_parse_func_caps(9)
• ixgbe_aci_list_caps(9)
• ixgbe_discover_dev_caps(9)
• ixgbe_discover_func_caps(9)
• ixgbe_get_caps(9)
• ixgbe_aci_disable_rxen(9)
• ixgbe_aci_get_phy_caps(9)
• ixgbe_copy_phy_caps_to_cfg(9)
• ixgbe_aci_set_phy_cfg(9)
• ixgbe_aci_set_link_restart_an(9)
• ixgbe_get_media_type_from_phy_type(9)
• ixgbe_update_link_info(9)
• ixgbe_get_link_status(9)
• ixgbe_aci_get_link_info(9)
• ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask(9)
• ixgbe_configure_lse(9)
• ixgbe_start_hw_e610(9)
• ixgbe_aci_set_port_id_led(9)
• ixgbe_get_media_type_e610(9)
• ixgbe_setup_link_e610(9)
• ixgbe_check_link_e610(9)
• ixgbe_get_link_capabilities_e610(9)
• ixgbe_cfg_phy_fc(9)
• ixgbe_setup_fc_e610(9)
• ixgbe_fc_autoneg_e610(9)
• ixgbe_disable_rx_e610(9)
• ixgbe_fw_recovery_mode_e610(9)
• ixgbe_fw_rollback_mode_e610(9)
• ixgbe_init_phy_ops_e610(9)
• ixgbe_identify_phy_e610(9)
• ixgbe_setup_eee_e610(9)
• ixgbe_identify_module_e610(9)
• ixgbe_setup_phy_link_e610(9)
• ixgbe_set_phy_power_e610(9)
• ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610(9)
• ixgbe_init_eeprom_params_e610(9)
• ixgbe_aci_get_netlist_node(9)
• ixgbe_acquire_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_release_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_aci_read_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_aci_erase_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_aci_update_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_nvm_write_activate(9)
• ixgbe_nvm_validate_checksum(9)
• ixgbe_discover_flash_size(9)
• ixgbe_read_sr_base_address(9)
• ixgbe_read_sr_area_size(9)
• ixgbe_determine_active_flash_banks(9)
• ixgbe_get_flash_bank_offset(9)
• ixgbe_read_flash_module(9)
• ixgbe_read_nvm_module(9)
• ixgbe_read_netlist_module(9)
• ixgbe_read_orom_module(9)
• ixgbe_get_nvm_css_hdr_len(9)
• ixgbe_read_nvm_sr_copy(9)
• ixgbe_get_nvm_srev(9)
• ixgbe_get_orom_civd_data(9)
• ixgbe_get_orom_srev(9)
• ixgbe_get_orom_ver_info(9)
• ixgbe_get_inactive_orom_ver(9)
• ixgbe_get_nvm_ver_info(9)
• ixgbe_get_inactive_nvm_ver(9)
• ixgbe_get_active_nvm_ver(9)
• ixgbe_get_netlist_info(9)
• ixgbe_get_inactive_netlist_ver(9)
• ixgbe_get_flash_data(9)
• ixgbe_aci_nvm_update_empr(9)
• ixgbe_read_sr_word_aci(9)
• ixgbe_read_flat_nvm(9)
• ixgbe_read_sr_buf_aci(9)
• ixgbe_read_ee_aci_e610(9)
• ixgbe_read_ee_aci_buffer_e610(9)
• ixgbe_validate_eeprom_checksum_e610(9)
• ixgbe_reset_hw_e610(9)
• ixgbe_get_pfa_module_tlv(9)
• ixgbe_read_pba_string_e610(9)

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And that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 The source/version footer says ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and the date is October 2026, with the page name ixgbe_is_media_cage_present(9) — iconic, slay, mwah 💅💖🦋