ixgbe_release_eeprom(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ixgbe_release_eeprom(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

Okay so real talk, this is ixgbe_release_eeprom(9), a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic for it. It's giving "one job, done correctly." Let's get into it ✨

🦋 NAME

ixgbe_release_eeprom — release EEPROM, release semaphores

That's it. That's the whole vibe. Two things get released, and she's not doing anything else today 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS

void ixgbe_release_eeprom (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

No return value, no drama, she just goes in and does the thing 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure. That's your hardware struct, the one you're handing over so she knows which hardware we're talking about. Don't lose it, don't make it NULL, just... pass the pointer, bestie 💖

💜 SEE ALSO

Okay so this is the part where the page just goes feral and lists literally everyone in the group chat. Grab a snack, this is a long one 🍓

Like I said. Everyone. The whole extended family showed up for the cookout 😭🔥

Heads up bestie: this page is genuinely just the NAME, the SYNOPSIS, the ARGUMENTS and that enormous SEE ALSO. No OPTIONS, no exit statuses, no environment variables, no bug notes hiding down here. What you see is what you get 💀

And that's the page!! Shoutout to the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... for the version cred, dated October 2026, and yes this whole thing is ixgbe_release_eeprom(9) — go release those semaphores, you absolute main character 👑💖✨

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