ixgbe_release_swfw_sync(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so you opened ixgbe_release_swfw_sync(9) — that's the page name, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual, bestie. Buckle up, this one is short but iconic 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_release_swfw_sync — release SWFW semaphore 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_release_swfw_sync (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u32 mask );

it's giving void — no return value, just semaphore-release energy, no cap 💅

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 🫶
  • mask — Mask to specify which semaphore to release 🎯

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this function releases the SWFW semaphore through the GSSR register for the specified function — and the functions on the list are CSR, PHY0, PHY1, EEPROM, and Flash. That's the whole plot, bestie: it's the release side of the SWFW semaphore situation, and mask is the thing telling it which semaphore to let go of 💅

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c 👑

and literally the whole ixgbe extended family is here, no cap:

okay that's the whole page, bestie. Signing off from the ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... source/version situation, dated October 2026 — stay slaying those semaphores 💖✨

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