ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config — okay so this one is literally "set up non-SFP+ link" 💅

and yes bestie, you found it in the Kernel API Manual — the (9) after the name is the giveaway, it's giving kernel-internals energy 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

like, that's the whole call. one argument. no drama. (do notice the lil space before the closing paren, it's part of the vibe, keep it 🎀)

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • hw — pointer to private hardware struct 💖 this is the hardware's own business, you're just handing it over

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Configure non-SFP link. 💫

that's it. that's the description. lowkey iconic that they said it in seven words and dipped ✨

heads up — this is the non-SFP+ path. if you were looking for the SFP one, that's a different function entirely, don't @ me 🙈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 🎉 slay
  • negative on failure 😭 not slay

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file that lives with all of this: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c 👑

and then. okay. prepare yourself. the whole entire ixgbe friend group 🫶:

like I said. the whole friend group. every single one of them 💀💖

🎀 source situation: this page comes out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yep, the footer truncates it like that, not my fault bestie 😭) and it's dated October 2026. so go read it, love it, and remember: negative return is not the vibe. periodt 💅✨🌸
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