ixgbe_probe(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ixgbe_probe(9) — bestie's guide to the Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so real talk, welcome to ixgbe_probe(9), aka the Kernel API Manual page that covers the actual birth of an ixgbe adapter 🦋. This is the "device wakes up and meets the world" moment, and yes it's giving main character energy 👑

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_probe — Device Initialization Routine 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_probe (struct pci_dev *pdev , const struct pci_device_id *ent );

that's literally the whole signature, bestie, no cap 💅

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • pdev — the PCI device information struct, aka all the juicy PCI deets about the device we're probing 🔍
  • ent — an entry in ixgbe_pci_tbl, the little lookup-table moment where the driver says "oh hey, that's me" ⭐

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the vibe: it returns 0 on success, and negative on failure. That's it, that's the contract 😌 — negative means something went sideways, so check that return value fr fr 🙈

ixgbe_probe initializes an adapter identified by a pci_dev structure. The way that it does this is: the OS initialization happens, the adapter private structure gets configured, and a hardware reset occurs. All three, iconic combo, one function 🧚✨

lowkey a lot of responsibility for one little probe function, but she ate 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, no one gets left out 🫶:

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 big kiss from the kernel boys, source and version being ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... dated October 2026, on ixgbe_probe(9) — see u in the next man page, mwah 💋✨💜

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