ixgbe_parse_e610_caps(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ixgbe_parse_e610_caps — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay so this is the manual page for ixgbe_parse_e610_caps(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, section 9, we're in kernel-doc territory 🫶

🌸 NAME

ixgbe_parse_e610_caps — parse common device/function capabilities ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS

bool ixgbe_parse_e610_caps (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , struct ixgbe_hw_caps
*caps , struct libie_aqc_list_caps_elem *elem , const char *prefix );

like, that's the whole signature. she's a bool returner, she takes four things, she's iconic 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS

  • hw — pointer to the HW struct. literally the hardware vibes in a struct, no cap 👑
  • caps — pointer to common capabilities structure. this is where the good stuff gets stashed 💖
  • elem — the capability element to parse. the one little guy we're inspecting 🔍
  • prefix — message prefix for tracing capabilities. so when you're debugging at 2am you know where the message came from 😭

🌈 DESCRIPTION

okay so listen: given a capability element, this function extracts the relevant details into the common capability structure. that's it. that's the whole job. she takes elem, pulls out what matters, drops it into caps. lowkey elegant, highkey essential 🧚 ✨

⭐ RETURN

true if the capability matches one of the common capability ids — slay, we found a match 💅

false otherwise — not one of ours, moving on 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO

okay this is the long part and I'm not skipping a single one of them, because every single reference matters, fr fr. go read these, bestie, they're all in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c 🔥

not me listing all of them 💀 look, the original lists every one and so do I. that's the vibe check and we passed. 🎀

🍓 bye bestie 💅

that's the page!! source path got truncated to ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and the date stamp says October 2026, and the whole thing lives in the Kernel API Manual as ixgbe_parse_e610_caps(9) — so go forth, parse those capabilities, and remember: match the common capability ids and return true, periodt ✨👑🦋

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