ks8851_eeprom_claim(9)

💅 ks8851_eeprom_claim — kernel API manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you're in the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink>, and today's main character is ks8851_eeprom_claim(9). yes that's a mouthful, we're gonna get through it together 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

ks8851_eeprom_claim — claim device EEPROM and activate the interface 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ks8851_eeprom_claim (struct ks8851_net *ks );

like literally that's the whole signature, no cap ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ks — the network device state. that's it, that's the one (1) argument, she's carrying the whole function 👜

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so what does she actually do? two things, and honestly she ate:

1. checks for the presence of an EEPROM 👀 — like a vibe check but for hardware
2. activates software access to the device 🔥 — once she's confirmed it's there, she turns on the software-side access

that's the whole thing. no more, no less, periodt. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi to all of them:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.c 📁
• ks8851_lock(9)
• ks8851_unlock(9)
• ks8851_wrreg16(9)
• ks8851_rdreg16(9)
• ks8851_soft_reset(9)
• ks8851_set_powermode(9)
• ks8851_write_mac_addr(9)
• ks8851_read_mac_addr(9)
• ks8851_init_mac(9)
• ks8851_rx_pkts(9)
• ks8851_irq(9)
• ks8851_flush_tx_work(9)
• ks8851_net_open(9)
• ks8851_net_stop(9)
• ks8851_start_xmit(9)
• ks8851_rxctrl_work(9)
• ks8851_eeprom_release(9)
• ks8851_phy_reg(9)
• ks8851_phy_read(9)
• ks8851_read_selftest(9)

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🫶 reminder bestie: this page lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel and it's stamped October 2026 — so if you're reading it in the future, hi, hope the kernel's slaying 💜

and that's the page!! ks8851_eeprom_claim(9) out, mwah 💋⭐