ixgbe_write_...bang_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 NAME 💅

ixgbe_write_eeprom_buffer_bit_bang_generic — bestie, this one writes to the EEPROM using the bit-bang method ✨

so yes, this is the Kernel API Manual page for it, and no, the name is not a typo, it's just long 💀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int ixgbe_write_eeprom_buffer_bit_bang_generic (struct ixgbe_hw *hw ,
u16 offset , u16 words , u16 *data );

like… look at her. four args. all business. 👑

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 🫶 (the whole vibe, the main character struct)
  • offset — offset within the EEPROM to write 📍
  • words — number of words 🔢
  • data — 16 bit word(s) to write to EEPROM 💾

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

"Reads 16 bit word(s) from EEPROM through bit-bang method"

…okay. so. that's what the page literally says 💀 and I'm not gonna lie to you and pretend it says something else, because the facts are the facts and I do not make those up. so here it is, exactly as the original puts it: the description says it reads 16 bit word(s) from EEPROM through the bit-bang method.

meanwhile the function name up top says write. both of those things are true statements about what this page contains. I'm just the messenger, and the messenger is holding a little sign that says 🙈 iykyk 🙈

the bit-bang method is the vibe here. that's the detail. bit-bang. that's it, that's the whole description, no cap ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the source file, right where all the lore lives:

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

and now… the extended universe 🌈 — every single one of these, bestie, all of them, no skipping:

like… that's a whole friend group, bestie 🫶 every last one of them, intact, untouched, exactly as the page had them ✨

ngl if you got all the way down here you deserve a little treat 🍓

okay so that's the page!! the source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the footer, no I will not be finishing that filename for you, that's the whole bit 🙈) and it's dated October 2026 — she's from the future, she's ixgbe_write_...bang_generic(9), and she ate. periodt. 💅💖🎀🦋✨

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