ixgbe_reset_hw_X540(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_reset_hw_X540 — NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's called ixgbe_reset_hw_X540 and it does exactly one iconic thing: Perform hardware reset 🔥 like, that's the whole serve. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_reset_hw_X540 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

literally just one function, one argument, returns an int. clean. minimal. main character energy 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 🫶 that's it, that's the whole parameter. she takes a pointer to the hardware struct and gets to work.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe check 👑 this function resets the hardware, and it does it in a whole little sequence, okay? watch:

  • it resets the transmit and receive units 💅
  • it masks and clears all interrupts 🙈 (bye bye, interruptions)
  • it performs a PHY reset 🌈
  • and then it performs a link (MAC) reset ⭐

all of that, one function call. ate. periodt.

💀 RETURN 💀

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • a negative value on failure 😭 (ngl if you see a negative you know something's up)

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

okay bestie, this is the little squad she runs with — the whole X540 fam fr fr 💜 first up, the source file:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c

and then all her friends, in exactly this order, no cap:

💖 cute little sign-off time: this page came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (that's the source/version line, truncated exactly like that, not me being lazy 🫶) and it's dated October 2026, and the whole thing is filed under ixgbe_reset_hw_X540(9). slay. bye bestie 🌸🦋✨
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