ixgbe_recovery_probe(9)

🦋 ixgbe_recovery_probe(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay bestie, we're looking at ixgbe_recovery_probe(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving "tiny but important recovery-mode moment" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_recovery_probe — Handle FW recovery mode during probe 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_recovery_probe (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the adapter private structure. yep, that's the private-structure bestie we're handing over 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Perform limited driver initialization when FW error is detected. no cap, it's the "we saw an FW error, so we do a limited little init" situation, not the full main-character probe 😭

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 — on successful probe for E610 👑
• -EIO — if recovery mode is detected for non-E610 adapter 💀
• error status code — on any other case 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c — go read the source, iykyk 💜

and the whole iconic function reference lineup, literal and exact, no cuts:

ixgbe_pcie_from_parent(9), ixgbe_read_reg(9), ixgbe_set_ivar(9),
ixgbe_get_vf_idx(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout_reset(9), ixgbe_tx_maxrate(9),
ixgbe_update_tx_ring_stats(9), ixgbe_update_rx_ring_stats(9),
ixgbe_pf_handle_tx_hang(9), ixgbe_vf_handle_tx_hang(9),
ixgbe_check_illegal_queue(9), ixgbe_handle_mdd_event(9),
ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(9), ixgbe_rx_is_fcoe(9), ixgbe_rx_checksum(9),
ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers(9), ixgbe_process_skb_fields(9),
ixgbe_is_non_eop(9), ixgbe_pull_tail(9), ixgbe_dma_sync_frag(9),
ixgbe_cleanup_headers(9), ixgbe_reuse_rx_page(9), ixgbe_add_rx_frag(9),
ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(9), ixgbe_configure_msix(9), ixgbe_update_itr(9),
ixgbe_write_eitr(9), ixgbe_check_overtemp_subtask(9),
ixgbe_check_phy_fw_load(9), ixgbe_check_module_power(9),
ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9), ixgbe_process_link_status_event(9),
ixgbe_handle_link_status_event(9), ixgbe_schedule_fw_event(9),
ixgbe_aci_event_cleanup(9), ixgbe_handle_fw_event(9),
ixgbe_irq_enable(9), ixgbe_poll(9), ixgbe_request_msix_irqs(9),
ixgbe_intr(9), ixgbe_request_irq(9), ixgbe_irq_disable(9),
ixgbe_configure_msi_and_legacy(9), ixgbe_configure_tx_ring(9),
ixgbe_configure_tx(9), ixgbe_rss_indir_tbl_entries(9),
ixgbe_store_key(9), ixgbe_init_rss_key(9), ixgbe_store_reta(9),
ixgbe_store_vfreta(9), ixgbe_configure_rscctl(9), ixgbe_configure_rx(9),
ixgbe_vlan_strip_disable(9), ixgbe_vlan_strip_enable(9),
ixgbe_write_mc_addr_list(9), ixgbe_set_rx_mode(9),
ixgbe_configure_dcb(9), ixgbe_hpbthresh(9), ixgbe_lpbthresh(9),
ixgbe_clean_rx_ring(9), ixgbe_enable_link_status_events(9),
ixgbe_disable_link_status_events(9), ixgbe_sfp_link_config(9),
ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config(9), ixgbe_check_media_subtask(9),
ixgbe_clear_vf_stats_counters(9), ixgbe_clean_tx_ring(9),
ixgbe_clean_all_rx_rings(9), ixgbe_clean_all_tx_rings(9),
ixgbe_set_eee_capable(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout(9), ixgbe_sw_init(9),
ixgbe_setup_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(9),
ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_rx_resources(9),
ixgbe_free_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_tx_resources(9),
ixgbe_free_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_rx_resources(9),
ixgbe_max_xdp_frame_size(9), ixgbe_change_mtu(9), ixgbe_open(9),
ixgbe_close(9), ixgbe_update_stats(9), ixgbe_fdir_reinit_subtask(9),
ixgbe_check_hang_subtask(9), ixgbe_watchdog_update_link(9),
ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_up(9), ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_down(9),
ixgbe_watchdog_flush_tx(9), ixgbe_watchdog_subtask(9),
ixgbe_sfp_detection_subtask(9), ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask(9),
ixgbe_service_timer(9), ixgbe_check_fw_error(9), ixgbe_service_task(9),
ixgbe_set_mac(9), ixgbe_add_sanmac_netdev(9),
ixgbe_del_sanmac_netdev(9), ixgbe_validate_rtr(9),
ixgbe_set_prio_tc_map(9), ixgbe_setup_tc(9),
ixgbe_configure_bridge_mode(9), ixgbe_irq_disable_single(9),
ixgbe_txrx_ring_disable(9), ixgbe_txrx_ring_enable(9),
ixgbe_enumerate_functions(9), ixgbe_wol_supported(9),
ixgbe_set_fw_version_e610(9), ixgbe_set_fw_version(9), ixgbe_probe(9),
ixgbe_remove(9), ixgbe_io_error_detected(9), ixgbe_io_slot_reset(9),
ixgbe_io_resume(9), ixgbe_init_module(9), ixgbe_exit_module(9)

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okay bye bestie — source/version footer says ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026, for ixgbe_recovery_probe(9). mwah 💋