ixgbe_update_link_info(9)

💖 ixgbe_update_link_info — a Kernel API Manual moment 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the main character is ixgbe_update_link_info. yes that's a mouthful, no i will not be shortening it, it's iconic. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_update_link_info — update the status of the HW network link 🌸

like, it goes and refreshes what we know about the hardware link. that's the whole vibe check. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_update_link_info (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

that's it. that's the whole call. one argument, returns an int. slay. ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the HW struct 👑 (the hardware situation, basically. it's giving "here's the hardware, go look at it")

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Update the status of the HW network link. 🔥

fr fr that's what it does — it goes and updates the status of the hardware network link. no extra lore, no secret side quests. just a link status refresh, and honestly? we respect the focus.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

the exit code of the operation. 💫

so like, check it. it's telling you how the whole thing went down. don't ignore it, bestie, that's the whole point of returning it. 😭

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this is the part where the manpage absolutely ATE. look at this list. the way that ixgbe has a function for literally everything. 🧚 i'm obsessed. it starts with the kernel file and then just keeps going and going and going:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c, ixgbe_should_retry_aci_send_cmd_execute(9), ixgbe_aci_send_cmd_execute(9), ixgbe_aci_send_cmd(9), ixgbe_aci_check_event_pending(9), ixgbe_aci_get_event(9), ixgbe_fill_dflt_direct_cmd_desc(9), ixgbe_aci_get_fw_ver(9), ixgbe_aci_req_res(9), ixgbe_aci_release_res(9), ixgbe_acquire_res(9), ixgbe_release_res(9), ixgbe_parse_e610_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_valid_functions_cap(9), ixgbe_parse_vf_dev_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_vsi_dev_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_fdir_dev_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_dev_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_vf_func_caps(9), ixgbe_get_num_per_func(9), ixgbe_parse_vsi_func_caps(9), ixgbe_parse_func_caps(9), ixgbe_aci_list_caps(9), ixgbe_discover_dev_caps(9), ixgbe_discover_func_caps(9), ixgbe_get_caps(9), ixgbe_aci_disable_rxen(9), ixgbe_aci_get_phy_caps(9), ixgbe_copy_phy_caps_to_cfg(9), ixgbe_aci_set_phy_cfg(9), ixgbe_aci_set_link_restart_an(9), ixgbe_is_media_cage_present(9), ixgbe_get_media_type_from_phy_type(9), ixgbe_get_link_status(9), ixgbe_aci_get_link_info(9), ixgbe_aci_set_event_mask(9), ixgbe_configure_lse(9), ixgbe_start_hw_e610(9), ixgbe_aci_set_port_id_led(9), ixgbe_get_media_type_e610(9), ixgbe_setup_link_e610(9), ixgbe_check_link_e610(9), ixgbe_get_link_capabilities_e610(9), ixgbe_cfg_phy_fc(9), ixgbe_setup_fc_e610(9), ixgbe_fc_autoneg_e610(9), ixgbe_disable_rx_e610(9), ixgbe_fw_recovery_mode_e610(9), ixgbe_fw_rollback_mode_e610(9), ixgbe_init_phy_ops_e610(9), ixgbe_identify_phy_e610(9), ixgbe_setup_eee_e610(9), ixgbe_identify_module_e610(9), ixgbe_setup_phy_link_e610(9), ixgbe_set_phy_power_e610(9), ixgbe_enter_lplu_e610(9), ixgbe_init_eeprom_params_e610(9), ixgbe_aci_get_netlist_node(9), ixgbe_acquire_nvm(9), ixgbe_release_nvm(9), ixgbe_aci_read_nvm(9), ixgbe_aci_erase_nvm(9), ixgbe_aci_update_nvm(9), ixgbe_nvm_write_activate(9), ixgbe_nvm_validate_checksum(9), ixgbe_discover_flash_size(9), ixgbe_read_sr_base_address(9), ixgbe_read_sr_area_size(9), ixgbe_determine_active_flash_banks(9), ixgbe_get_flash_bank_offset(9), ixgbe_read_flash_module(9), ixgbe_read_nvm_module(9), ixgbe_read_netlist_module(9), ixgbe_read_orom_module(9), ixgbe_get_nvm_css_hdr_len(9), ixgbe_read_nvm_sr_copy(9), ixgbe_get_nvm_srev(9), ixgbe_get_orom_civd_data(9), ixgbe_get_orom_srev(9), ixgbe_get_orom_ver_info(9), ixgbe_get_inactive_orom_ver(9), ixgbe_get_nvm_ver_info(9), ixgbe_get_inactive_nvm_ver(9), ixgbe_get_active_nvm_ver(9), ixgbe_get_netlist_info(9), ixgbe_get_inactive_netlist_ver(9), ixgbe_get_flash_data(9), ixgbe_aci_nvm_update_empr(9), ixgbe_read_sr_word_aci(9), ixgbe_read_flat_nvm(9), ixgbe_read_sr_buf_aci(9), ixgbe_read_ee_aci_e610(9), ixgbe_read_ee_aci_buffer_e610(9), ixgbe_validate_eeprom_checksum_e610(9), ixgbe_reset_hw_e610(9), ixgbe_get_pfa_module_tlv(9), ixgbe_read_pba_string_e610(9)

bestie there are like a hundred of these. i counted with my whole heart. every single one is a real thing you can look up in section 9. go click around, it's giving lore drop. 💀

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okay that's the page!! 🍓 source/version situation: it lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes the manpage really does just cut it off like that, no cap 🙈) and it's dated October 2026. mwah, bye bestie, go update that link info 💋💖🎀