ixgbe_sfp_l...nfig_subtask(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so yes, the page header is literally ixgbe_sfp_l...nfig_subtask(9) and it lives in the Kernel API Manual — but the actual name of the thing we're talking about, the full non-truncated one, is ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask, and that's what we're getting into. sit down, hydrate, let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask — set up link SFP after module install 💅

like, the whole vibe of this function is: the SFP module just got installed, and now somebody has to actually go configure the link. that somebody is this subtask. it's giving "post-install cleanup main character energy" 🦋

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

returns void, so no return-value drama, no "did it work?" — it just does the thing. periodt 🔥

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • adapter — the ixgbe_adapter structure, aka the ixgbe adapter structure. that's the whole argument list, one (1) whole struct pointer, and honestly? iconic. lowkey the most low-maintenance signature ever 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay bestie, this is the part where the manpage flexes its entire friend group. first off, the actual kernel file it lives in:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c

and then, in the exact order the page lists them (not me reordering anything, i would never), the whole extended squad:

like… the way that list just kept going 😭 that's the entire ixgbe cinematic universe, and every single one of them is a (9) page. no cap, read them all. iykyk 💜

and that's the page, bestie — nothing hidden, no surprise flags, no environment variables, no exit statuses, no warnings, no bugs section, no authors, no copyright, no license. it's a tiny page and it knows it. 💀

sign-off time 🎀 — this little beauty comes out of the Kernel API Manual, with its source path shown (truncated, as manpage footers love to do) as ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026, and the footer repeats the truncated title ixgbe_sfp_l...nfig_subtask(9) just so you know you're in the right place. mwah 💋✨🦋

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