mlx5_eq_enable(9)

🎀 mlx5_eq_enable 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for mlx5_eq_enable(9) — yes it's a real function, yes it's iconic, and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx5_eq_enable — the little function that turns the EQ on so it can start receiving EQEs 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int mlx5_eq_enable (struct mlx5_core_dev *dev , struct mlx5_eq *eq ,
struct notifier_block *nb );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• dev — the device that owns the eq. like, the main character who's responsible for it 💅
• eq — the EQ we're enabling. this is the one getting the glow-up ✨
• nb — the notifier call block, ngl it's just here doing its notifier thing 🦋

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

You must call this after the EQ is created in the device. not before, not whenever you feel like it — after 💀 like the vibes are simply not it otherwise.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 if no error 😌 periodt, that's the whole return value, no cap.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c — go read the source bestie, it's giving lore 📖
• mlx5_eq_disable(9) — the opposite energy, the un-slay button 🎀

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