ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599 — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay bestie, so this one is a section-9 kernel API page, and honestly? it's short and sweet and kind of a baddie. it's ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599, and the whole entire point of it is: read a word out of the EEPROM using the fastest method available. no cap. that's the gig. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u16 offset , u16 *data );

return type is int, three args, that's it, that's the whole vibe check. 🦋

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure. like, the hardware. the actual struct. hand it over, please and thank you 💅
  • offset — the offset of the word in the EEPROM that you want to read. which word? this word. you pick 🎯
  • data — the word that got read out of the EEPROM. this is where the answer lands, so it's giving output-parameter main character energy 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

reads a 16 bit word from the EEPROM. that's it. honestly iconic of it to just say exactly what it does and then dip. 16 bits. one word. EEPROM. slay ✨

and remember the NAME said the fastest available method — so this whole function is basically the "i know a shortcut" friend of the EEPROM world 🧚

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the kernel file it lives in:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c

and now, the extended 82599 family reunion — everyone showed up, and yes you have to say hi to all of them 😭:

fr fr go read them too, they're all in the same friend group 💀

and that's the page!! 🎀✨ this little cutie came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yep, the footer literally truncates it like that, we don't gatekeep) and it's dated October 2026. mwah 💋 go read your EEPROM word, bestie, you've got this 🦋💖

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