ixgbe_setup...k_smartspeed(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's a single little function page and it's lowkey iconic, so let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_setup_mac_link_smartspeed — set the MAC link speed using SmartSpeed 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_setup_mac_link_smartspeed (struct ixgbe_hw *hw ,
ixgbe_link_speed speed , bool autoneg_wait_to_complete );

it's giving "one function, three args, no drama" — int goes in, int comes out, periodt 🔥

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🖥️ literally the hardware vibes, passed by pointer
  • speed — the new link speed ⚡ the one you're setting
  • autoneg_wait_to_complete — true when waiting for completion is needed ⏳ like, are we doing the patient thing or not, iykyk

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Implements the Intel SmartSpeed algorithm 💫 that's the whole business. no cap, that's what it does — SmartSpeed, implemented, by this function, for Intel. slay 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the actual file it lives in, bestie:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c 📁

and then the whole extended friend group 💜 all of these are (9) sections, all of them, don't come for me:

like, that's the whole 82599 roster fr fr 🧚 they all ate 💀

ok tiny heads-up bestie 🙈 this page really is just the one sentence of description, so don't go looking for extra lore that isn't there — I'm not gonna invent behaviour for you, that's not the vibe 🌸

and that's the page!! 💖 this lil doc came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ mwah, go read the whole 82599 family, ily, bye 🎀💜

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