ixgbe_read_eerd_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_read_eerd_generic — the EEPROM-word-reading girlie ✨

Bestie, welcome to page ixgbe_read_eerd_generic(9) of the Kernel API Manual 🎀. This is the lowkey iconic little helper that grabs a single 16-bit word out of EEPROM, and yes she is a generic — main character energy fr fr 💖.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_read_eerd_generic — Read EEPROM word using EERD 💫

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure. like, the actual hardware situation you're working with 💻
  • offset — offset of word in the EEPROM to read. which word are we grabbing, bestie? 🔍
  • data — word read from the EEPROM. this is where the word comes back out to 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Reads a 16 bit word from the EEPROM using the EERD register 👑. That's the whole vibe — one word, sixteen bits, EERD register doing the work. Slay 💅.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

First up, the kernel file this all lives in, no cap:

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

And now, the whole entire friend group — literally every one of these, because we do not leave anyone out of the group chat 😭💜:

ok that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 go read your EEPROM word, you're gonna do amazing 💖

🌈 that's a wrap on the Kernel API Manual page ixgbe_read_eerd_generic(9), straight outta ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i… (the path got cut off, rip 😭), dated October 2026 — see you in the next group chat ✨💅🎀

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