ks8851_eeprom_release(9)

💖 ks8851_eeprom_release — a Kernel API Manual moment 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ks8851_eeprom_release(9) — yes the (9) is giving "section nine, Linux kernel internals, main character energy" and we respect it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ks8851_eeprom_release — the function that releases the EEPROM interface, literally its whole job, and it does it slayfully 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ks8851_eeprom_release (struct ks8851_net *ks );

that's it. that's the whole call. void return, one argument, no drama, no notes 🔥

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• ks — The device state. like, the whole device's state. hand it over and let her do her thing ✨

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So what does it actually do? It releases the software access to the device EEPROM. That's the entire vibe check 💖

tl;dr: something claimed the EEPROM, and now this gives it back. balanced. iconic. periodt 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• 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_claim(9), ks8851_phy_reg(9), ks8851_phy_read(9), ks8851_read_selftest(9)

(go read all of them fr fr, they're the friend group and this page is just one member of the squad 🌈)

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🌟 the cute sign-off 🌟

source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel — dated October 2026 💫 and that's the whole page, no cap. mwah, go release that EEPROM bestie 😭💖🧚